Dan Ben-Canaan has been living in China for over two decades, and has known the country and its people intimately since the late 1980s. He is a Professor Emeritus of Research and Writing Methodologies at the School of Postgraduate Studies, Northeast Forestry University, and Heilongjiang University, School of Western Studies in Harbin. He also serves as Visiting Professor for Advanced Studies with the Postgraduate Studies at Heilongjiang Provincial CCP Party School. He is the founder of the Sino-Israel Research and Study Center (2002) attached to the Harbin Jewish Culture Association which he founded in 2014. His research focuses on the history of Northeast China, known in the past as Manchuria, Harbin as an international and transcultural city, the history of the Jews in Harbin and China, and the Chinese perception of the Jewish people. Among his books are Echoes of Harbin: Reflections on Space and Time of a Vanished Community in Manchuria, and The Kaspe File: A Case Study of Harbin as an Intersection of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in Conflict 1932-1945.