James Ross and Song Lihong (eds.), The Image of Jews in Contemporary China. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 216. 244 pp.

This chapter reviews the book The Image of Jews in Contemporary China (2016), edited by James Ross and Song Lihong. The Image of Jews in Contemporary China includes philosophical reflections, Kaifeng history, a travelogue from a visit to Jewish descendants in Kaifeng, and essays on the Holocaust, Israeli literature, how the general public in China reads the Bible, and political relations between China and Israel. The book begins with the essay “Perceiving Jews in Modern China,” followed by “Images of Jews in Contemporary Books, Blogs and Films,” “Chinese Policy towards Kaifeng Jews,” “Distinctiveness: A Major Jewish Characteristic,” and “Reflections on Chinese Jewish Studies: A Comparative Perspective.”