China and the West

London, Jack. A son of the sun. (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21971/21971.txt
On the chest of one hung a white doorknob, on the chest of another the handle of a china cup, on the chest of a third the brass cogwheel of an alarm clock…
She's a lady. I mean it. She knows a whole lot of South America, and of China, too…
Peter Gee, a half-caste Chinese pearl-buyer who ranged from Ceylon to the Paumotus…
Peter Gee was that rare creature, a good as well as clever Eurasian. In fact, it was the stolid integrity of the Chinese blood that toned the recklessness and licentiousness of the English blood which had run in his father's veins…
David Grief, and his guest, Gregory Mulhall, an Englishman, were still in pajamas, their naked feet thrust into Chinese slippers…