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2008

May 6: Mr. and Mrs. Rosenwach, noted American-Jewish industrialists, and Jewish-American author Andrea Lingenfelter visited CJSS. Dean Prof. Pan Guang and Deputy Dean Zhou Guojian welcomed them. The same day, Zhou Guojian, Yao Qin, Wang Zhen, Cheng Wenqin and others went to inspect the exhibition at Ohel Rachel Synangogue and discussed potential next steps concerning the exhibition.

May 5: Israeli Consul General in Shanghai, Uri Gutman, paid a visit to Dean Prof. Pan Guang.

April 29: U.S.-American painter Barbara Edelstein paid a visit to Dean Prof. Pan. Deputy Dean Zhou Guojian, Cheng Wenqin, Wang Zhen, Liu Jinqian were present.

April 28: H.E. M. K. Bhadrakumar, a former Indian Ambassador, a member of India’s Communist (Marxist) Party, and noted expert on international issues, visited CJSS and gave a lecture. Dean Prof. Pan Guang welcomed and entertained the guest to dinner.

April 25: Russian Deputy Consul General in Shanghai, Sergey Paltov, visited the center and engaged in discussions on the Middle East and Central Asia.

April 22: CJSS co-organized with the Eurasia Department’s Center on Middle East Studies the conference “The Middle-East’s Near Future.” The same day, SASS celebrated the 50^th anniversary of study of Judaism and presented in a plenary session a monograph. Zhu Wen from the Shanghai Office of the Beijing Gui’an Consultancy.

April 8: Prof. Wang Yuwei, Dean of the Center for Immigration Research at Taiwan’s Central Police University, visited the center and was welcome and treated to dinner by Dean Prof. Pan Guang. Hai Liang, Director of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences’ Office for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs, Deputy Dean Zhou Guojian, and colleagues from the Shanghai Municipal Government’s Taiwan Affairs Office attended.

April 7: Jew and former refugee in Shanghai Oscar Sirkes visited the centre with his wife. Deputy General Secretary Wang Zhen accompanied on a visit to Hongkou.

April 2: Dr. Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College (Part of Clairmont Colleges, California) visited the Academy of Social Sciences Shanghai and gave a talk on “The Use of Humanities and Social Sciences in Training Leaders in High-Tech and Economics.” SASS Acting Associate Dean Zuo Xuejin attended the talk, which was chaired by CJSS Dean Prof. Pan Guang.

March 31: Martin B. Gold, Member of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, visited the center to discuss matters relating to the commemorative events to be held for Ho Fengshan in June in Shanghai. Yao Zong from the city’s Foreign Affairs Office participated in the meeting.

March 25: Leo Gleser, President and Founder of International Security and Defense Systems Ltd (ISDS) visited the center on invitation. He gave a presentation at the seminar on “Security and the Olympics,” which was jointly organized with the Shanghai International Culture Association.

March 14: French television interviewed Dean Prof. Pan on several questions relating to Jews in Shanghai. The same day, Overseas Chinese Dr. Wei Zhenwei from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) was welcomed by Deputy General Secretary Wang Zhen to the center.

March 13: The daughter of Mr. Maurice Ohana, President of the Jewish Community Shanghai, celebrated her wedding at the Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai. Dean Prof. Pan Guang, Deputy Dean Zhou Guojian, International Programs Office Program Officer Xu Jia and others attended the ceremony.

March 12: On invitation from the center, Dr. Boaz Ganor, Director and Founder of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism and a notable counter-terrorism expert, spoke on invitation from CJSS on “International Counter-Terrorism Cooperation and Security at the Olympics.” Dean Prof. Pan Guang and Deputy Dean Yu Jianhua chaired the seminar. Israel’s Consul General in Shanghai, Uri Gutman, attended the seminar.

March 4: CJSS held a special meeting to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. At the event, CJSS’s newest book was presented, which is the second volume of the CJSS Jewish & Israeli Studies Series. The book also marks the 20^th anniversary of the establishment of the center.

March 3-4: Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Los Angeles based Simon Wiesenthal Center (a Jewish organization with international reach) and an old friend of CJSS, visited the center. Deputy Dean accompanied Rabbi Cooper on a visit to Jewish sites in Shanghai and Dean Prof. Pan held a working meeting with the guest. Deputy Secretary Generals Wang Zhen and Wang Shuming participated in the meetings. Deputy Dean Yu Weidong and Executive Secretary Liu Jinqian welcomed Rabbi Cooper at the airport.

February 26: Ms. Lital from Tel Aviv University’s (Israel) East Asia Department came to CJSS to carry out research. Deputy General Secretaries Wang Shuming and Wang Zhen welcomed her at the center and held talks with her.

February 24-27: Dean Prof. Pan Guang traveled to Norway to attend an international conference.

February 19: The leaders of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee for Preventing and

Combating Cults Task Force visited the centre.

February 15: The Jewish Center Shanghai held a regular meeting to discuss the work of the center in the near future.

February 5: Ni Weiguo, President of “6 o’clock Publishing” visited the center and was welcome by Deputy Secretary General Wang Zhen. The same day, the Israeli Consul General in Shanghai, Uri Gutman, paid Dean Prof. Pan a visit.

February 1: CJSS invited organizations responsible for the Jewish historic sites of Shanghai to a symposium marking the Chinese New Year, thanking them for the support of the work of the center and discussing with them ides to further cooperation. This was followed by a dinner hosted for the guests by Dean Prof. Pan Guang and Deputy Dean Zhou Guojian.

January 29: The Center of Jewish Studies held its annual end-of-year meeting. Dean Prof. Pan delivered the annual report. At the meeting, the planned work for the next year was discussed.

January 27: Receipt of a letter from Israeli Prof. Aron Shai, a China expert currently on a research visit to the U.S., inquiring about information on Jews in Shanghai during WW II.

January 25: Rosanne Lapan from the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Seattle (Washington State) Chapter and Joseph J. Borich, Executive Director of the Washington State China Relations Council and former U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, visited the centre. Dean Prof. Pan briefed the guests on the research and international cooperation of the centre. Both sides exchanged views on potential cooperation. Deputy Deans Wang Jian, Zhou Guojian, Deputy Secretary General Wang Shuming and other CJSS researchers attended the meeting.

January 14-17: Dean Prof. Pan Guang traveled to Madrid, Spain, to attend a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations meeting.

January 11: American Jewish Committee (AJC) Asia-Pacific Institute Director James R. Busis visited CJSS. Dean Prof. Pan Guang introduced the research focus of the center and talked about international exchanges at CJSS. Mr. Busis expressed the hope for cooperation between the two institutions. CJSS Deputy Dean Wang Jian and Deputy Secretary General Wang Shuming attended the meeting amongst others. The American Jewish Committee was established in 1906 and is one of the most influential Jewish organizations in the U.S.A.

January 2: Dean Prof. Pan and Deputy Dean Zhou Guojian met with Dr. Daniel Dratwa, Director of the Jewish Museum of Belguim. Deputy Dean Zhou accompanied Dr. Dratwa on a tour of Jewish sites in Shanghai.

2007

December 28: Yao Wangxing, editior at Shanghai Sanlian Publishers, and Prof. Liu Yunqiu of East China Normal University visited CJSS to discuss matters relating to cooperation.

December 27: Guo Chonglun, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Taiwan’s China Times, visited Dean Prof. Pan Guang. They engaged in an exchange on inter alia matters of Jewish Studies.

December 25: Shanghai TV Group interviewed Dean Prof. Pan on Sephardic Jews in Shanghai and the Ohel Moishe Synagogue.

December 18, Hong Kong’s Asia Television Limited interviewed Dean Prof. Pan on Sephardic Jews in Shanghai in general and the Kadoorie Family in particular.

The same day, Zhang Yaozong, Director General of the Foreign Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipal Government, and Mr. Maurice Ohana, President of the Jewish Community in Shanghai, visited the CJSS, discussing matters related to cooperation.

December 18: Prof. Alain Goldschläger, Director of the Holocaust Literature Research Institute and Deputy Director of the French Department, both at Western Ontario University, visited the center and gave a lecture. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Dean Yu Weidong. Deputy Secretary General Wang Shuming accompanied Prof. Goldschläger to the Jewish sites of Shanghai.

December 11: Ms. Judith Weissbach, a doctoral student at the University of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg, Germany, visited the center and discussed issues relating to research on Jews in Shanghai, including data gathering.

December 7-12: Dean Prof. Pan participated in a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations symposium held in Brazil.

November 29 to December 1: Dean Prof. Pan Guang participated in the meeting of the executive committee of the Asia Studies Foundation, held in Tailand.

November 24: Dean Prof. Pan Guang and Deputy Dean Yu Jianhua, gave respective presentations at the Shanghai World History Association’s annual meeting.

November 22: CJSS research fellows attended a conference on the situation in the Middle East held by the Israeli Consul General in Shanghai, Uri Gutman, at the Consul’s residence.

November 12: “Shanghai & Hongkong Economy” interviewed Dean Prof. Pan Guang on a number of issues, including Jewish studies.

November 9: Slovakia’s Consul General in Shanghai Igor Pacolák visited the Centre of Jewish Studies Shanghai. He was warmly welcomed by Dean Prof. Pan Guang and several of CJSS’s research fellows. Consul General Pacolák introduced the Institute of Jewish Studies at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, and expressed hope for cooperation between the institute and CJSS. Huang Renwei, Vice President of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and Li Yihai, Director of the Foreign Affairs Office at the academy, met with the Consul General.

November 6: Prof. Nathan Glazer of Harvard University, a co-founder of the original neo-conservative movement and noted theorist, gave a lecture on “Origins and Perspectives of Neo-Conservatism” at the Academy of Social Sciences Shanghai. Dean Prof. Pan Guang chaired the event.

November 3: 102-year-old American-Jewish noted philanthropist Kathryn Davis lead a group that visited CJSS.

November 1-2: Martin B. Gold, Member of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, returned to visit the center to discuss cooperation on events to honor Ho Fengshan. China International Friendly Association Acting Deputy Secretary General Chen Jun took part in the talks.

November 1: A group of distinguished Canadians visited the Center of Jewish Studies. Dean Prof. Pan held a lecture on “Jews in China.”

October 30: Jewish writer Rena Krasno, who now lives in California and is the Secretary General of the Sino-Judaic Institute, visited the center on invitation from CJSS. She held a talk on “The Russian Jews in Shanghai.”

October 26: A group of South African Jews visited CJSS. Dean Prof. Pan gave a presentation on the "Jews in China." It was the first time that Jews from South Africa visited the center.

October 19: A delegation from Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Institute of International Studies expressed the wish to invite CJSS scholars to conduct research on the Iranian Jewish community.

October 16: Prof. Helmut Kramer from the University of Vienna (Austria) visited the center with his assistant and held talks with Deputy Secretary General Wang Jian and Mr. Dominik Holter, serving Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant at CJSS.

October 15: Dean Prof. Pan met with Lynn Schusterman, Chairwoman of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.

October 12: Prof. David Owen, Director of the Jewish Research Center at Cornell University, lead a group that visited the centre. Dean Prof. Pan Guang introduced the guest to the history and current situation of Jews in China. The talk was attended by Deputy Dean Zhou Guojian and other CJSS researchers. Prof. Owen introduced the work of his center and presented a number of relevant books as a gift to the center.

October 9: Moshe Dunie. President of the Seattle Chapter (Washington State) of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and President of Dunie Investments, visited CJSS and met with Dean Prof. Pan Guang.

October 8: Well known Chinese-American businessman Zhu Yumin visited Dean Prof. Pan Guang.

October 7: A group comprising representatives both from the Israel-China Friendship Association and from the Association of Former Residents of China in Israel visited CJSS under the leadership of Vice-Chairman Ran Veinerman.

October 2: Dean Prof. Pan visited Free University Brussels (Belgium). He was invited to give a lecture on “Jews in China.” The lecture was attended by Israel’s Ambassador to Belgium, along with other officials and university leadership.

September 28: Dean Prof. Pan attended a series of events held in city of Yiyang (Hunan province) to commemorate Dr. Ho Feng Shan, the former Consul General of China in Vienna, who passed away 10 years ago. Prof. Pan went on invitation from the Yiyang municipal government. Prof. Pan was invited to give a talk, at which municipal (Yiyang) and provincial (Hunan) leaders were present, as well as Israel’s Ambassador to China, H.E. Amos Nadai.

September 25: Itzhak Shoham, Director of the North East Asia Division of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visited the Center of Jewish Studies accompanied by Israel’s Consul General to Shanghai, Uri Gutman. Dean Prof. Pan Guang and Deputy Dean Wang Jian welcomed the guests and hosted a dinner in their honor.

September 21: Several American and Kazakhstani participants of the “8th Conference of Central Asia & Shanghai Cooperation Organization” visited the centre.

September 14: A delegation from the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Modern History visited CJSS to discuss continued cooperation on materials relating to Czech Jews who fled to Shanghai during World War II.

August 25-26: A national conference "Dialog of Civilizations and Development in Middle East" was held in Shanghai. The symposium was co-sponsored by the Chinese Association of Middle East Studies, the Institute of European & Asian Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai Society for World History, and the Shanghai Center for International Studies. All of CJSS’ researchers attended the conference.

August 10: Noam Narbach, an Israeli scholar who teaches Hebrew at Shandong University visited CJSS, where he met with Deputy Secretary-General Wang Jian for informal discussions.

August 8: A group of American teenagers of Chinese origins touring China on a "Journalism and Leadership" summer camp visited CJSS and joined a lecture by Prof. Pan Guang on "The Jews in China."

July 25 - 26: Prof. Yom Tov Assis, a expert on Jewish History from Hebrew University of Jerusalem visited the CJSS. Deputy Secretary-General Wang Zhen met him at the center.

July 26: Following a suggestion by the Chinese Consul General in New York, well-known American businessman Mark Rosenblatt and his wife, Ms Sarah Stern, Business Director of "Commentary" - the most influential publication within the American Jewish community -, visited CJSS and were hosted a dinner by Prof. Pan Guang.

July 19: Former US Consul General in Shanghai and currently Deputy CEO of Bridgestone America, Henry Levine, visited CJSS and held talks with Prof. Pan Guang on matters concerning cooperation.

July 12: A distinguished group of American Jews, led by old friend of CJSS, Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, visited CJSS. Prof. Pan Guang gave a lecture on "The Jews in China." to the group.

July 10: Prof. Moshe Pelli, a renowned Jewish Studies expert and Director of the Judaic Studies program at the University of Central Florida, visited the CJSS and gave a lecture on the "American Hebrew Enlightenment." Associate Dean of CJSS, Prof. Zhou Guojian chaired his lecture. Prof. Pei Li engaged in an in-depth discussion of relevant questions. He was also accompanied by Deputy Secretary-General of CJSS, Mr.Wang Zhen on a tour of Jewish sites in Hongkou district.

June 30: Prof. Pan Guang met with Ellen M. Heller, President of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, who was visiting Shanghai. They engaged in discussions on topics of mutual interest.

June 29: Fred Rosenbaum, founder of Berkeley (California) based Lehrhaus Judaica, visited CJSS. He gave a lecture on the Jewish, Chinese and Japanese People of San Francisco and engaged in thorough exchanges with this Center's scholars. Following the meeting, CJSS hosted a lunch reception for  Prof. Rosenbaum.

July 1-5: The 'Teaching the Holocaust' International Task Force Seminar was held at Shanghai University. The event was jointly organized by the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, the London Jewish Culture Center (UK), the Department of History of Shanghai University's College of Liberal Arts and the Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai. The lectures at the seminar were given internationally renowned scholars. The more than 70 participants - lecturers, researchers and graduate students - came from universities and research institutions. In the afternoon of July 1st, the visitors, who came both from abroad and within China, visited CJSS, where Prof. Pan Guang gave the opening lecture entitled "Holocaust Refugees in Shanghai." After the meeting, Associate Dean Zhou Guojian and Deputy Secretary-General Wang Zhen accompanied the attendees on a visit to Hongkou, the site of the former Designated Area for Jewish Refugees. In the morning of July 2nd, the seminar was ceremoniously opened in the presence of the American and Israeli Consul Generals as well as the leaders of Shanghai University, who expressed congratulations. Dean Pan and Associate  Dean Zhou attended the opening ceremony and also expressed congratulations. CJSS’ researchers and graduate students attended the seminar. They listened to the lectures and actively participated in the discussions.

June 30: Prof. Pan Guang met with Ellen M. Heller, President of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, who was visiting Shanghai. They engaged in discussions on topics of mutual interest.

June 29: Fred Rosenbaum, founder of Berkeley (California) based Lehrhaus Judaica, visited CJSS. He gave a lecture on the Jewish, Chinese and Japanese People of San Francisco and engaged in thorough exchanges with this Center's scholars. Following the meeting, CJSS hosted a lunch reception for  Prof. Rosenbaum.

June 27: Associate Dean Zhou Guojian, Yu Weidong and Deputy Secretary General Wang Zhen attended a forum held by Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General Aharon Abramovitch's delegation at Le Royal Méridien Shanghai. Ten experts on Middle Eastern Affairs from Shanghai attended the event. The participants engaged in a deep discussion of the critical issues concerned.

June 15-17: The "Third Forum on The History of Harbin Jews" was held in Harbin. It was sponsored by the Heilongjiang Province's People's Government and jointly organized by the Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences and the Israeli Embassy in China. CJSS’ Associate Dean Zhou Guojian and Wang Jian participated by invitation. Both gave lectures at the forum, among other topics on Jewish Commercial Activities in China and on Jews in China after World War II. In interviews with Xinhua's Heilongjiang Branch and Heilongjiang TV, Wang Jian expressed his observations on Jewish commercial activities in China in recent years.

June 10: The first volume of "CJSS Jewish & Israeli Studies Series" has been published. It is entitled The Jews in Asia: Comparative Perspectives.

May 31: Martin B. Gold, Member of the United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad and a senior adviser to the U.S. State Department on matters of preservation of America’s heritage abroad, visited CJSS. With members of this Center he discussed matters relating to the commemoration of He Fengshan, to be jointly hosted in 2008 by the US and Chinese governments. The China Association for International Friendly Contact will host the event on behalf of the Chinese side. CJSS will organize the event. The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences' Vice-Party Secretary and the Center of Jewish Studies' Honorary Dean Tong Shijun met with Mr Gold. Prof. Pan Guang discussed the specific matters related to the event with Mr Gold. CJSS's Associate Dean Zhou Guojian accompanied Mr Gold on a visit to the Ohel Rachel Synagogue and the former Hongkou Jewish Refugee Ghetto, among other places.

May 25: Prof. Pan Guang, in New Zealand on the occasion of the high-level "Alliance of Civilizations" symposium, visited the New Zealand Jewish Community Center. Steven Goldman, Chairman of the New Zealand Jewish Council, accompanied Prof. Pan Guang on visits to, among others, a Synagogue and a Jewish school. They also explored areas of possible cooperation.

May 24: At a "Alliance of Civilizations" high-level symposium held in Auckland, New Zealand, New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark met with Dean of CJSS, Prof. Pan Guang.

May 15: Chairman of the Australian Jewish Chamber of Commerce Sam Moshinsky, who lived in Shanghai prior to 1949, and Professor Leon Mann from The University of Melbourne (Australia) visited the Center. Dean Pan Guang hosted a lunch banquet in their honor. Associate Dean Zhou Guojian, Wang Jian and others helped entertaining the guests of honor.

2006

April 28th: The East Asia Library manager of the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Xu Hong, visited our Center discussing future cooperation concerning books and reference materials.

April 24th-27th: Shanghai Rickshaw Reunion 2006: Many activities were carried out by former Jewish refugees during their visit to Shanghai.

April 20th: Prof. Pan Guang met the Chairman of the German Green Party Reinhard Bütikofer and his wife for dinner. They discussed studies and aspects of Holocaust research and planned to cooperate on related subjects.

April 18th: Rainbow Oralis region outside management Director Chen Jian and a delegation of our Center discussed plans on applying for the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage program with the former designated area of the Jewish refugees in Hongkou.

April 17th: The China representative of the University of Vienna, Prof. Richard Trappl, visited our Center to discuss the development of the cooperation between the University of Vienna and our Center related to Jewish studies.

April 10th: Johnny Erling, China correspondent of the German newspaper “Die Welt” and the Austrian newspaper “Der Standard” visited our Center.

April 4th: Principal Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev from the University of Haifa in Israel visited our Center to discuss details about further cooperation.

April 3rd-11th: The Dean of our Center, Prof. Pan Guang, visited Hawaii and Pittsburgh in the USA. In Hawaii, Prof. Pan was introduced to the Hawaiian Governor Linda Lingle and the US Pacific Special Operations Command Major General David P. Fridovich (both are Jewish) bringing them his picture album “The Jews in China” as a gift. In Pittsburgh, Prof. Pan gave an academic lecture about the Jews in China at the University of Pittsburgh and has presented his recent work to the University library. He also gave an autograph session of his three works at the University of Pittsburgh East Asia library.

March 29th: The old friend of our Center, Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, led a Jewish museum delegation to visit our Center expanding the Sino-Jewish exchanges. The group was mainly composed of American museum directors and museum supporters.

March 26th: The National Director of the American Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Abraham Foxman, led a delegation of the ADL visiting China. The delegation and our Center held a seminar about “Jews in China” at the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel with a lecture of our Center’s Dean Prof. Pan Guang. Mr. Fox followed him, making some remarking commentaries about Chinese-American friendship, also speaking on behalf of Ms. Yang Xuelan. The lecture was followed by a question and answer session and a warm discussion about various aspects of political issues concerning Jews.

March 25th: A group of Jewish Frenchmen visited out Center and listened to Dean Pan Guang who gave a lecture about the “Jews in China”.

March 20th: Dr. Rina Zviely, Director of the friendship association at the University of Haifa in Israel (equal to a Director of Foreign Affairs) visited the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and our Center.

March 9th: Dr. Du Xiaofan, Beijing project official of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), came to Shanghai to inspect the original Hongkou Jewish refugee area for the application for the UNESCO Cultural Heritage program for war areas. Dr. Du and Dean Prof. Pan Guang met in order to discuss questions concerning political issues of the Hongkou Jewish refugee area and later had dinner together.

March 6th 2006: Former high rank official at the Austrian Ministry of Science, honorary professor at the University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck, and son of Jewish refugee who came to Shanghai before World War II, Raoul Kneucker visited our Center together with his wife.　

March 3rd, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and Austrian General Consulate Shanghai held the opening ceremony of the Bertha von Suttner Exhibition in the Ohel Moishe Synagogue in Hongkou District. Prof. Pan introduced on the initiation of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service at the Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai, mentioning Martin Wallner as the first young Austrian volunteer in the Center. Vice President of the SASS Xiong Yuezhi spoke in his keynote speech about the importance of Bertha von Suttner and Dr. Raol Kneucker, an Austrian professor at the University of Vienna and Innsbruck.

March 1st, Japanese visiting scholar Sekine Maho began his research at the Center.

February 28th, En Passant filmmaker Rudi Fieldgrass visited the Center.

February 21st, Hideo Nakamura, pastor in a Beth Shalom, and Nobuyuki Fujimoto visited the Center. Related to the Japanese Holocaust Center in Kyoto, they highly regretted during their discussion with Prof. Pan what had happened to the Chinese due to Japan’s militarism during the Sino-Japanese War.

February, Specialists examined the Jewish Studies Project and concluded that this project was very fruitful and would be continued in the next 5-year plan period.

January 24th, our Center celebrated the Chinese Spring festival.

January 20th, Director Seth Garz of the Israel-China Partnership in Innovation visited the Center.

January 17th, Prof. Zhou presided over a meeting between Dr. Zhang Yanhua from the Tonji University and our Center. The main topic was the progress of the research program on the Jewish heritage in Shanghai.

January 16th, Mrs. Yang Xuelan, chairman of the Culture Institute of the American 100 Committee, met Prof. Pan on exchanging their ideas about cooperation between the two organizations.

January 12th, Prof. Pan was invited to give a lecture at the Shanghai division of the China International Travel Service. The director of the division and around 200 tour guides listened to his speech about Jewish culture and Jews in Shanghai.

January 5th 2006, Israeli Consul General of Shanghai Uri Gutman held a reception to opening of the conference he organized about the future of the Middle East. He also dedicated the opening to the celebration of the Chinese Spring Festival. Around 20 scholars attended the conference including the following SASS members: Vice President Zuo Xuejin, Vice President Huan Renwei, Prof. Pan Guang, Prof. Li Lifan, Prof. Zhou Guojian and also other scholars from Nanjing and Shanghai.