China and the West

Baring, Maurice. Round the world in any number of days. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1919).
https://archive.org/details/roundworldinanyn00bari.
Sailors and Chinamen never break anything; but, on the other hand, there is nothing that children will not break…
Cut the anchovies in pieces and place on china plate…
There is a large Chinese population in Tahiti, but they busy themselves for the most part with agriculture. They do not do much work for the white people…
Apart from this, there are a few little carriages which act as cabs, driven by Chinamen, but they appear to go to sleep in the daytime, and only appear in the evening…
A lake in Manchuria covered with large pink lotus flowers, as delicate as the landscape on a piece of Oriental china…
Hotel life in America seems to me infinitely better organized than in any other country in the world, with the possible exception of China. Because when you order a room at a Chinese hotel, in a small Chinese town, the room is built for you while you wait; you choose the style of room, and the paper, the carpeting, and all the furniture are put in during the day…