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Waving passports from Ger- many and other countries bearing stamps of entry into Shanghai during World War II, these Jews were ecstatic to recall their days of haven and the Chinese who welcomed them. Gao, a native of Shanghai, was moved nearly to tears. A teacher of Judaism and Christianity at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, Gao also remembers those days. "When I was a boy in Shanghai during World War II, I witnessed many Jewish refugees, and I made friends with the Russian- Jewish boys . . . They spoke good Chinese," he recalled. The president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, Ar- thur Schneier, arranged Goo's study this year at the Har- vard Divinity School. "At that time," Gao con- tinued, "I didn't think anything about Jews or judaism, but later I became aware of Jews having endured the Holocaust in Europe. It moved me very deeply." Gao, 50, with an air of pa- tience and a shy smile play- ing on his lips, wore a kippah and seemed very much at home in the Jewish ambience as he recalled his education in missionary schools and his Christian upbringing, which included observance of the traditional ancestor workship that is part of Confucianism. It is not at all uncommon for the Chinese to mix religions, Gao said. He noted that he sees some similarities between Jews and Chinese, particularly in reverence for the elders in the family. Because of his feeling for Jewish history, the professor said, "I decided to do something for the betterment of the relations between the two peoples." About 20 years ago, Gao became seriously interested in the study of Jews in China. His source materials were the Torah and books available through Christian schools. Communism, he said, has not deterred the Chinese from their initial interest in religion. These new years of Chinese openness to Western ways are likewise a blessing -for those who wish to study and practice religion, he said. Last year, he went to a former synagogue in i Shanghai, one of about 30 that fully functioned in the heyday of Jewish presence in that cosmopolitan city. The synagogue was very difficult to locate, said Gao. Two were demolished two years ago "because the Chinese people and government really didn't recognize the symbolism of the synagogue. They really don't think it should be preserved as an historical site." During his research, Gao has found that "We don't have any kind of anti-Semitism in China. These two people were friendly and hostility never existed between us," he said. Gao ,9.9.:d he does not understand how China could be antithetical to Israel or Jews. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, one of