The Great Journey -- Friendship Between Chinese and Jews -- A Debate Under a Big Locust Tree -- The Emperor Bestows Surnames -- The Beginning of a New Life -- What's in a Name? -- Bearing the Weight of Tradition -- In the Hall of the Moral Gao -- A Permanent Record in an Impermanent World -- A Mutual Discovery: Jews and Jesuits -- Resisting Conversion -- Rescuing Sacred Books -- Rebuilding the Synagogue -- Kaifeng Jewry's First Family -- Rejecting the Imperial Envoy's Proposal -- The Twelve Golden Calves -- A Tale of Brotherly Love -- Where Is Israel? -- The Tenacity of Tradition -- We Are Jews.

A collection of legends and stories from the oral tradition of this group of Jews who migrated to China long ago offers a look at their history and unique identity.