is a Research Associate of Harvard University's John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian History and a Professor Asian History at the University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia. His books include The Jews of China (vol. I 1998; vol. 2, 2000); China and Israel, 1948-1998, (1999); Philadelphia and the China Trade, 1682-1846 (1978) and with Hilary Conroy and Jerry Israel, American Views China (1991).