Antisemitic racial pseudoscience invented millions of Jews in China

Evidence

Even more bizarre, in later years any Chinese who happened to have a slightly bigger nose, such as the famous Song family and Liu Shaoqi, the first chairman of the People’s Republic of China, was identified as being Jewish. The numbers of the Jews in China thus increased continuously. According to an antisemitic pamphlet, which appeared in 1969 in Louisiana and was translated by a certain Istvan Bakony, there were at least two million Jews in China. Another booklet published in Georgia claimed these Jews were originally Venetian and had arrived in China during the Mongol rule. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 359

Categorization

• CANDY: Liu Shaoqi and the Song family being identified as Jews for having big noses is precisely the absurd lore one can drop into conversation.