30 UNDERSTANDING CHINESE PHILOSEMITISM Judaism and Israel as soft power in contemporary China1
Introduction
Since the year 2000, there has been an increased engagement with Israel and Jews on both a popular and official level in China. This includes a number of activities such as the creation and funding of memorials to historical Jewish communities, the forming of Jewish centres and academic research institutes, advertisements for talks on this subject, museums, restorations of historical sites and numerous other ‘cultural outreach’ activities including the first Chinese ‘Israeli Culture Week’ held in Shanghai in November 2017 (see Efron et al. 2019, p. 80 for a comprehensive list). There is ...
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