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Appalling Rubbish
Ronald Farquerson in Confessions of a China Hand, publisahed in 1950
I suppose the truly gullible can buy more appalling rubbish in Peking than anywhere else in the world.
Thunder outer China
Rudyard Kipling from his poem "Mandalay"
On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
Attempted Explanations
H. Smith Chinese Characteristics, 1894
The history of foreign diplomacy with China is largely a history of attempted explanations of matters which have been deliberately misunderstood.
Featureless Plain
Arnold Toynbee on Peking, 1929
Peking is just something which human imagination and energy have done to so many square miles of the featureless, enormous North China plain: and if just this had not been done by men just here, those particular square miles would not have been distinguishable in any way from the thousands of others by which they are monotonously surrounded.
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