Song Lihong is a professor of world history at Tsinghua University, China. Prior to his appointment at Tsinghua, he was a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Nanjing University for two decades. His academic appointments include a postdoctoral fellowship and visiting positions at Tel Aviv University, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the University of Pennsylvania, the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, the Institute of the Sino-Christian Studies (Hong Kong), the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and Ghent University. He works in the fields of Jewish history, Chinese-Jewish historical interactions, and Roman Britain.

His latest Chinese monograph At Empire’s Edge will soon be published. He has recently edited Representations and Identities in the Jewish Diaspora (Beijing, 2018; in Chinese), co-edited two volumes—China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters (Berlin, 2022) and The Image of Jews in Contemporary China (Boston, 2016), and compiled a textbook Jewish Civilization: Texts and Traditions (Nanjing, 2020; in English). He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, and on the advisory board of International Journal of Alterity.