Yes but to go TO China as a foriegn national, your passport will have a full page China visa approving dates of travel and VERY easily visible. Passport only has, what, 21 usable pages and the China visa is easy to spot. We’re not talking entry/exit stamps that are 1/4-page sized inked stamps.
Again a China visa is a full page, clear as day. To flip through a paper for one takes turning ten pages. Stands right out. China is not like the UK, or France, where no visa is required. To go to China (on a us passport) you send you passport to their embassy within one month of departure for a visa, which is limited use date range and that is clearly unique one page decal. One passport may have a few visas taking up whole pages.
Obviously if your a Chinese national, that passport will easily be recognised and scrutinized even further for exit/entry visas.
Not difficult, to determine either way.
Looking at my own passport, the visa stamps are NOT in any particular order. Looks to me like the visa stamper just opens the passport, and the first blank page she finds, is where she stamps it.
And there are many more stamps than the visa stamps in my passport, showing when I entered the country, even though a visa was not required. And those stamps are also in random order.