Your tour guide:
Professor Xu Xin
Nanjing University
"The world’s leading expert on Jewish Chinese History"
Prof. Xu Xin is president of the China Judaic Studies Association and editor-in-chief and a major contributor to the Chinese edition of Encyclopedia Judaica (Shanghai: Shanghai People's Publishing House, 1993). He is also the author of Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng and Anti-Semitism: How and Why. In addition, he has authored numerous articles on Judaic topics and surveys of Jewish communities in Shanghai, Tianjin, Harbin, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
He has also organized many exhibits in China on topics related to Jewish issues including the First International Conference on Jewish Studies in China in 1996 in Nanjing, co-sponsored by Tel Aviv University. In 1995 he served as a fellow at Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion and as a visiting scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies of Harvard University in 1996 and 1998.