Song Lihong, professor and doctoral supervisor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and the Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies, Nanjing University. He received his Ph.D. in World History from the Department of History, Nanjing University in 2003. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University (2003-04), a visiting professor at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (2008-09), a visiting research scholar at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania (2012-13), a research fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Israel (2016. 2-7), and a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute (2020-21). He was also a fellow or scholar-in-residence at the University of Oxford, UCLA, Brandeis University, Penn State University, Northwestern University, Yad Vashem, Ghent University, and Coventry University. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Association of the Middle East Studies of China, a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of World Ancient History of China, an editorial board member of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (published in the UK), and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy (ISGAP). His academic interests focus on the Jewish civilization and the Sino-Jewish connections. His English publications include two co-edited volumes: China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters (2022), and The Images of Jews in Contemporary China (2016).