ABSTRACT
Having perceived the ‘oppressed Jews’ as comrades of the ‘oppressed Chinese’, the ‘Jews’, as a ‘race’, were reclassified as one of the ‘weak and small nation/races’ (ruoxiao minzu). 1 The discourse of the ‘weak and small nation’ began to emerge in China after World War I as a result of the breakdown of the big imperial powers and the increasingly growing nationalistic movements in various parts of the colonial world. It was amplified as a consequence of the Japanese invasion in the 1930s.
