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Inside China’s Bizarre Obsession With Jews
How ‘Jewish’ became Chinese shorthand for success
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7 min readDec 10, 2018
On a muggy summer day, I happened upon two twentysomething Chinese men bickering over the best angle for a selfie in front of the memorial wall at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. After they declined my offer to help with the photo, I asked why they had come to the…
