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Chinese Philo-Semitism: Why China Admires the Jewish People
May 8, 2020 | By Jordyn Haime
I. Introduction
As I sat through Lunar New Year celebrations in China last year, hosted by the family and friends of a Chinese friend of mine, Gen, I began to pick up on a curious pattern. When Gen introduced me to the table, he would often note my Jewish identity. Mention of this sparked conversation about the Holocaust, Israel, and Jewish money.
Questions fired off in my direction: "Do you feel more Israeli or American?" "Why did Europeans hate you so much?" "How can I educate my child as well as the Jews?" "Is it true that you're not allowed to open certain types of bank accounts?" I was often left shocked and flustered with no answer that could satisfy their curiosity with the Jewish people.
Being greeted with excitement, curiosity and even admiration was a warm and welcome change from the fear I felt walking past security guards every time I went to holiday prayer at synagogue in the United States. The everyday Chinese person's observations about Jewish people are absolutely stereotypical, but not rooted in the same anti-Semitic history found in the west. Knowledge and understanding of the Jews came to China much later, and Jews throughout China's history rarely experienced anti-Semitic attacks or policies. In fact, it was rare for the everyday Chinese citizen to know much of anything about the Jewish people until after China's reform and opening up in the 1980s, when popular writers like He Xiongfei and many others began publishing books about the Jews like Jewish Wisdom and Family Education: the Cultural Code of the Most Intelligent and Wealthy Nation in the World (2005), Secrets of Jewish Success: The Golden Rule of a Miraculous Nation (2004), Jewish Life of Money (2002), The Pandect of Jewish Intelligence (2005), and countless others. These books and the myths inside them, often citing the Talmud as the source of Jewish economic success (and many factual errors), have become so popular that your average taxi driver could tell you about the power and cleverness of the Jews. Stereotypes like these were likely fuel for Chen Guangbiao, one of China's richest men, to state "I am very good at working with Jews" when announcing his intentions to buy the New York Times in 2012.
But the popular stereotypes don't end at Jewish money; stereotypes and impressions of Jews unique to China have emerged over time. I asked a friend from Chengdu University what she thought of the Jews, and she told me: "I think the Jews are very smart, good at business and inventing things. But at the same time, I pity them because they have been persecuted. There were wars in China 80 years ago where many people were also persecuted. So I understand the Jews' grief of losing their home." Her answer encapsulates many popular opinions and stereotypes of Jews that exist in China today, including an important one that seems to form the basis of Chinese opinions of Jews: many Chinese say they pity the stateless, oppressed Jews and can even relate to their historical struggle.
The Chinese government also seems to have a certain affinity for the Jews based on the amount of monetary investment that has gone into restoring Jewish synagogues and historical sites in cities with a Jewish history. In Shanghai, $60,000 was spent to restore the Ohel Rachel synagogue in 1998, and Jewish sites in Harbin, including a Jewish cemetery, have also been restored and turned into museums and tourist attractions. Previously hostile relations between China and Israel in the Mao era also seem to have cooled and Israel today is one of China's most important relationships. Today, there are nine Chabad Lubavitch religious centers across mainland China staffed by foreign religious leaders, a privilege, according to Xu Xin, not typically given to other foreign religious groups. This is a unique case, however, because the Chinese government only expresses this positive attitude and economic investment toward foreign Jewish populations that have resided in China throughout its history. The same is not true for the Jews of Kaifeng, whose synagogue has never been rebuilt or restored by the Chinese government and recent crackdowns on religious life have caused many Chinese Jews to be forced to practice their religion in private or make aliyah, or voluntary migration, to Israel.
II. Research question
China's impressions and policies towards Jews are especially surprising when put in the context of its hostile relationship with other foreign religions. There are five "approved" religions in China today: Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam. The state's relationship with the three "foreign" religions – Protestantism, Catholicism and Islam – has been hostile for hundreds of years and continues to be today, from the internment of millions of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang to the destruction of church steeples across the country and ongoing conflicts between Beijing and the Vatican over who has authority to appoint church leaders. In Kaifeng, the city known for its Chinese Jews who have lived there since the Song dynasty (960-1279), Chinese Jewish descendants have been experiencing increasing hostility from the Chinese government, backing out of a project to rebuild the synagogue as a museum out of fear of a resurgence of Chinese Jewish life, prohibiting holiday and worship gatherings, and removing markers of historical Jewish life. But as a foreign Jew in China, I can attend Jewish services and holidays with foreign Rabbis who have apparently been given special permission to lead religious life, a privilege not often granted to other foreign religions. I can express and practice my religion openly while others can’t. So why does China seem to be a philo-Semitic country and people? Why does it admire the Jewish people and promote their culture and history above other foreign religions?
Understanding the way Chinese people think about Jews will also be important in filling in cultural gaps and misunderstandings. When I tell stories of the stereotypical questions asked about my heritage to other westerners, they are shocked and offended on my behalf, classifying their questions and assumptions as anti-Semitism. Westerners were outraged when Chen Guangbiao, the man who wanted to buy the New York Times, made his comments about working with Jews. Analyzing why these stereotypes exist, where they come from, and how they persist in modern China will tell a more accurate story about China’s relationship with Jews and why their attitudes are not rooted in ideology similar to Western anti-Semitism, and therefore not as harmful. Therefore, in this paper, I will seek to answer the question: why do the Chinese people and its government admire the Jewish people more than other foreign religions in China?
III. Literature Review
There are few existing hypotheses explaining the origin of Chinese admiration toward Jews, but based on the amount of research that has been done into the history of Jews in China, it can be hypothesized that China has a favorable view of Jews because of China's historically positive relationship with its own Chinese-Jewish community during the Song Dynasty, as well as Jewish immigrants in the 19th and 20th century.
The earliest evidence of the Jews of Kaifeng was found between 960 and 1126, during the Song Dynasty period. Kaifeng Jews had a good relationship with the imperial government in Kaifeng – then the capital of China – and they were completely free to practice their religion, though often perceived to be part of the Muslim community. Anti-Semitism was irrelevant in Kaifeng Jewish life because of the economic and numerical insignificance of the population. The Jews of Kaifeng also assimilated well into the surrounding Han Chinese community. Eventually, the Kaifeng Jews almost completely assimilated into Chinese life via intermarriage and conversion to other religions and have become indistinguishable from the greater Chinese population, though a handful today claim to be descendants of the Jews of Kaifeng.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Jews from Baghdad and Europe came to major Chinese port cities for trade and business opportunities. Jewish families like the Sassoons quickly opened successful trade businesses and purchased major properties in Chinese cities, especially Shanghai. Though the Sassoon's property, known as Aili garden, was replaced with the Sino-Soviet friendship center in 1955 as a symbol of "new socialist Shanghai in contrast with old capitalist Shanghai," the older generation still remembers the family fondly and the younger generation often read fictional literature about the family. In a similar vein, Russian Jews who came to the city of Harbin to escape anti-Semitic persecution enjoyed a lifestyle free of prejudice and "generated work for the local Chinese population and poured millions of rubles, and later yen, into Manchuria." Jews later sought refuge in Shanghai during World War II, an action China and the Chinese people take pride in.
While China has a history with the Jews almost completely free from anti-Semitism that reaches as far back as the 10th century, the history alone cannot fully explain the depth and reasoning behind China's relationship with the Jewish people today. In a survey conducted among 214 Chinese students in 2003, 145 said they didn’t know anything about the history of Jews in China, while 31 said they were familiar with the Jews of Shanghai and only 8 said they knew of the Jews of Kaifeng. News reports today indicate that the Chinese government has expressed hostility toward the Kaifeng Jews but have left foreign Jews alone. Studies also note that Jewish stereotypes in China popular today found their roots in the late 19th-early 20th centuries when foreign powers entered China – hundreds of years after Jews came to Kaifeng. Therefore, examining history previous to this time period would not lead to an accurate answer. Rather, examining China's reasoning for reacting the way they did to Jews in their own historical timeline, rather than looking at the timeline itself, will lead to a more specific and concrete understanding of China's impressions of Jews.
China's understanding of identity
A more practical answer to the question and one supported by scholars who have researched the subject is China’s understanding of identity: both their own sense of identity and how they view the identities of non-Chinese people. Zhou Xun asserts that "…the implications associated with the 'Jews' as a racialized and culturally constructed/reconstructed ‘other'…remains a distant mirror in the construction of the 'self' amongst various social groups in modern China." Many other scholars also assert that China admires the Jews because they see in their constructed image Jews what they aspire to be: powerful, rich, perseverant and well-educated.
China's current image and attitude toward Jews seems to have been established in the late 19th and early 20th century when the Bible was brought to China via Christian missionaries who depicted Jews in a stereotypical manner; Chinese scholars also began venturing to the west during this time period and returning to China with an image of Jews as wielding economic power over the United States as well as being victims of the "white man," especially in places like Russia. The second point is key, as during this time period China was experiencing what is now referred to as a period of great humiliation due to foreign imperialist powers or the "white man" asserting power over China. The presence of foreigners in China – particularly foreign Christian missionaries – led to disasters such as the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion, when a Chinese man who thought he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ sparked nationwide rebellions that ended in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese. This explains hostility toward foreign religions that has persisted today. And of course, the two Sino-Japanese wars between the late 19th century and the end of World War II victimized and killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese people. As a result, the Communist Party under Mao kicked out nearly all foreigners and enforced extreme nationalistic ideals in order to bring China – even its ethnic minorities – together as one country self-sufficient and independent of foreign powers. This also supports a major and important point in Zhou's above statement: categorization of Jews as a "racialized" group rather than a religious group. The initial step in framing Jews in this way also aides in the way China views them; it separates and distinguishes the Jews from other white Westerners who have used their religion to proselytize in China and ultimately cause chaos and antagonism toward the West there.
As China felt victimized by foreign powers in its own country, China's observations of a stateless ethnic minority prosecuted for thousands of years that now apparently held economic dominance and power over the "white man" was an attractive idea to say the least. Chinese writers' musings about the Jews during this period heavily focused on pity for the Jews' statelessness. Some scholars would go so far as to say that the idea of a stateless, yet powerful Jew gave hope to Chinese under attack. This idea has sustained today: many Chinese do not separate a people from their nation and associate all Jewish people with the state of Israel and assume most if not all Israelis are Jewish.
China's strong sense of identity and history of victimization by the "white man" also explain the government's policies toward Jews. Judaism is not a proselytizing religion and has no history of seeking converts in China. Many Kaifeng Jews assimilated with the Han Chinese people (the dominant Chinese ethnic group) through intermarriage rather than the other way around, and many Kaifeng Jews even converted to Islam over time. Therefore, Jewish people are allowed to exist and practice their religion in China free of control even though Judaism is not one of the five recognized religions of China under the condition that only foreigners can practice. This is an advantage that other foreign religions in China do not have.
Chinese people even saw themselves in the Kaifeng Jews of a thousand years ago. Records of writings by the Kaifeng Jews show that Judaism was compared to the core Chinese values of Confucianism, values that are still upheld as important and authentically Chinese ideals today. China's strong sense and understanding of identity as an explanation of China's admiration and tolerance for Jews above other foreign religions is the strongest argument based on the quality and volume of evidence available. This idea not only explains the attitudes of everyday Chinese people, but also the actions of the government.
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The author of the essay above mentions how his Chinese friend told him she understood the grief Jewish people felt losing their homes under persecution. Does the Jewish author's Chinese friend empathize with the grief and persecution of the Palestinian people who are being killed, their homes and property taken from them and their olive droves being bulldozed? That's one god damn loving compassionate religion alright.
Ask the Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson (buried in Israel) what he thought of either US citizenship or Israeli citizenship and it isn't surprising in the least when he stated "even though he wore a US military uniform he wished that it had been an IDF uniform."
An alternative opinion on the Covid injections. Probably not the "Jewish people" per se but rather what has been referred to as Khazars (read Khazarian Cabal triggering violence across the planet in advance of starting their WW3 and The only way to prevent a Third World War is to expose the contriving Khazarian plotters) hiding behind the religion of Judaism who are nothing more than a very dangerous criminal syndicate. There are a lot of decent Jews inside Israel who are just as much the victims as the rest of us are. From the link above we read that it was Israel's Netanyahu who allowed Pfizer with the Jewish CEO Albert Bourla (an alleged veterinarian by training) into Israel. We see from above that "China is continuing the Covid scam" because it is a communist (a different variety of communism that is for sure) country and as we can read from above have come to worship the Jewish people.
January 3, 2022
I'll say it like it is: The entire Covid scam was a plot by the Jewish people for the purpose of getting the goy to accept a malicious shot designed and tested by the Jews on Palestinian prisoners. There were no blunders and no mistakes made, the entire situation was a malicious fabrication.
As part of the hoax they have to ensure the world that they are the most vaccinated of all, but their autism stats were 1 in 80,000 until I looked it up and blew it open, suddenly six months later all their stats matched the United States. At least what they published, and what idiot would believe that?
As part of the hoax they have to ensure the world that they are the most vaccinated of all, but their autism stats were 1 in 80,000 until I looked it up and blew it open, suddenly six months later all their stats matched the United States. At least what they published, and what idiot would believe that?
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Can't help but consider that if "Zionism is racism" what part do these Covid injections play in that this component with Pfizer operating in Israel?
What the hell is going on here? Back channel through Israel to the US before Russia launches their final assault on Ukraine?
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