China and the West

Wilde, Oscar. Impressions of America. Ed., with an introduction, by Stuart Mason. (Sunderland : Keystone Press, 1906). (Library of American civilization ; LAC 40007). [Geschrieben 1883].
Er schreibt : "The people – strange, melancholy Orientals, whom many people would call common, and they are certainly very poor – have determined that they will have nothing about them that is not beautiful… When the Chinese bill was presented, it was made out on rice paper, the account being done in Indian ink as fantastically as if an artist had been etching little birds on a fan."