China and the West

Voynich, E.L. Works.
1897
Voynich, E.L. The gadfly. (New York, N.Y. : H. Holt, 1897).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3431/3431.txt.
His manner was so bright and pleasant that Arthur felt at ease with him
at once. After some desultory conversation, the Director inquired how
long he had known Montanelli. "For about seven years. He came back from China when I was twelve years old."… "I can well believe it; he is a man whom no one can fail to admire—a most noble and beautiful nature. I have met priests who were out in China with him; and they had no words high enough to praise his energy and courage under all hardships, and his unfailing devotion…
This was the room where she had died. Her portrait was on the wall beside the bed; and on the table stood a china bowl which had been hers, filled with a great bunch of her favourite violets…
My father was generous enough not to divorce your mother when she confessed her fall to him; he only demanded that the man who had led her astray should leave the country at once; and, as you know, he went to China as a missionary…
"THE OTHER PEOPLE? The gamblers and the people of the house? Why, you don't understand! They were negroes and Chinese and Heaven knows what; and I was their servant--THEIR PROPERTY…
I suppose you have a humanitarian feeling about negroes and Chinese. Wait till you've been at their mercy !...

1901
Voynich, E.L. Jack Raymond. (London : W. Heinemann, 1901).
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His sense of order would not tolerate useless growth of any kind ; therefore he was clean-shaven, showing the nakedness of the worst thing in his face - a Chinese insensitiveness, at the corners of the mouth…
He drew out of it first a little book, villainously printed on bad paper, and glanced at the title. It was in English, but might as well have been in Chinese, for all he understood of it…

1904
Voynich, E.L. Olive Latham. (London, W. Heinemann, 1904),
They all looked to him as much alike as so many Chinese idols, rather the worse for wear.