Another hidden history of China is that the Rothschild family entered China in the 1830s when it set up a small gold and silver trading business in Shanghai. In 1953, four years after the founding of New China, Rothschild was one of the first major Western banks to establish relations with the country. Jews came to Asia to escape persecution across the west for coin clipping, usury and various financial crimes leading to collapsing economies. Jews of Babylon were of the earliest Jews to enter China- Babylon was the center of Jewish culture and life for centuries. "When things turned against the Jews in the 19th century, many of these families went to India, where they met the British. There was a meeting of the minds, where very talented and ambitious Jewish merchants saw possibilities in China, and expanded into the opium trade and needed people to run their businesses. They asked [Jewish] families to send their sons to Shanghai, which was the Gold Rush, the frontier, a possibility for young men to earn unimaginable fortunes by starting as clerks and accountants in China. Because they were from Baghdad, they spoke a kind of Judeo-Arabic that the Chinese couldn’t speak, so they had a kind of code. The fact that British firms often excluded the Jews out of anti-Semitism forced them to work with the Chinese." Read: https://forward.com/culture/442250/when-jews-were-kings-and-opium-lords-in-shanghai/ The opium war was what destroyed the dynastic families in China and allowed for Communism to take its place- a Jewish system. “Hidden History: Recounting the Shanghai Jewish Story” tells the little-known history of the diverse, resettled Jewish community in Shanghai, including Iraqi Jews who arrived in the mid-1800s, Russian Jews who fled pogroms at the turn of the century, and German and Austrian Jews who desperately escaped the Nazis. With most countries limiting or denying entry to Jews during the 1930s, the free port of Shanghai became an unexpected safe haven for Jews attempting to flee the antisemitic policies and identity-based violence in Nazi-controlled Europe. “Hidden History” explores this multifaceted history of desperation, loss, and asylum through survivor stories and the photographic lens of prominent American photojournalist Arthur Rothstein, who documented the Shanghai Jewish community in 1946 for the United Nations. The exhibition highlights their stories of survival and features vibrant artifacts from the Holocaust Museum LA's collection, as well as those on loan from the Skirball Cultural Center, Yad Vashem, and the Arolsen Archives in Germany. Read: https://www.holocaustmuseumla.org/hidden-history Compiled by Airika of: T.me/ArtWithAim