Is the history of Jews and Judaism in China fascinating?

I personally find it so!

I was actually surprised to hear about this when I learned about it for the first time because typically when you read about Jewish communities around the world it’s mostly either Europe, the Anglo-American world, The Middle East or Latin America (like Argentina). I am especially curious about this as China becomes an increasingly more important geopolitical nation on the world stage as the new rising global superpower and thus obviously it would hold important implications for Israel and Jews. I did read an interesting article about David Ben Gurion’s personal views on China and I know Shimon Peres was interestingly a China fan.

Is there anything interesting or fascinating about Jews and Judaism in China that you know that you think is worth sharing? Would love to hear! 🙂