China and the West

Baring, Maurice. Russian essays and stories. (London : Methuen, 1908).
https://archive.org/details/russianessayssto00bariiala.
But there are goods of every variety ; second-hand books, tea and silks from China, gems from the Urals, and "art nouveau" furniture…
It was Wednesday, the day of the bazaar.
The bazaar in the village is the mart, where the buying and selling of meat, provisions, fruit, melons, fish, hardware, ironmongery, china, and books are conducted…
We have neither the sublime and contented ignorance of the British, nor the
Chinese Wall-like narrow-mindedness of the French, nor the complicated misapprehension of the Teutons…
And whatever happens to the world, as long as men exist, it will be understood. It could be played in Chinese without losing one jot of its import or its message…
Alexander Petrovitch had been fond of adventure, and had even taken part in foreign wars in Cuba, in Greece, and in China…
Then there was a Chinaman, a real Chinaman with a big pigtail, who spun a pail of water on his finger…