China and the West

London, Jack. Revolution and other essays. (London : Macmillan, 1910).
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Goliah.
Strange stories of blacks stolen from Africa were remembered, of Chinese and Japanese contract coolies who had mysteriously disappeared, of lonely South Sea Islands raided and their inhabitants carried away; stories of yachts and merchant steamers, mysteriously purchased, that had disappeared and the descriptions of which remotely tallied with the crafts that had carried the Orientals and Africans and islanders away…
The shrinkage of the planet.
The death of an obscure missionary in China, or of a whisky smuggler in the South Seas, is served up, the world over, with the morning toast…
The house beautiful.
And so the Korean drone flaunts his clean white clothes, for the same reason that the Chinese flaunts his monstrous finger-nails, and the white man and woman flaunt the spick-and-spanness of their spotless houses…
What life means to me.
This one rung was the height I climbed up the business ladder. One night I went on a raid amongst the Chinese fishermen…
There weren't any dividends that night, and the Chinese fishermen were richer by the nets and ropes we did not get…