Since the colloquium was not open to general audience, except for a few public lectures, the participants had much freedom and time to focus their discussions among themselves, even to debate some issues. Dr. Roman Malek, Director of the Institute Monumenta Serica, and Professor Herbert Franke of Munich, made the opening remarks. Two documentary films, Exile Shanghai, directed by Ulrike Ottinger, and Ich war ein Chinesischer General Dr. Jacob Rosenfeld, and a video tape entitled Personal Impressions of a Jewish Musician in China, by Alexander Knapp, were shown during the conference. Photographs and other documents highlighted the history of Jews in China. Various Western and Chinese publications were also exhibited.
Plans are underway to publish all the papers.