[afraidfortherepublic]

Well, I don't know what this is all about, but I've visited Xian, the ancient capital of China and strolled amongst the clay statues of the soldliers. I've forgotten the year that they were buried, but there are no two faces alike (many look like some of the Chinese friends I had in California in my youth) and there are definitely Caucasian soldiers amongst the ranks. The features and the hair depicted is NOT Asian.

Another article I read a few years back described the discovery of a Christian Nativity tableau hidden in the attic of a Bhuddist temple in an outlying province of China. Thae article claimed that the tableau dated back to the Apostles -- Thomas specifically. They claimed that he had made his way along the shores of India and then north into China while he was evangelizing.

I never heard any more about it.

[SunkenCiv]

I've seen books on the Assyrian Orthodox church, which evangelized into Central Asia and China, basically along the Silk Route and points north and south. The ruined churches can still be found in the Chinese interior, mostly in places where few people go nowadays. Jews also wound up in China, and there are physically Chinese people who have "Iuda" as their ethnicity.

Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng by Xin Xu tr by Beverly Friend illus by Ting Cheng reviewed