"For three or four Chinese coppers, I could ride in a rickshaw from my home, in England, to Italy, Germany, Japan, or …"

"The beginning of the first two concessions, the British and the French, were “foul and noxious swamps, around them, o…"

"The foreign areas look for all the world like modern Western cities, with great modern Temples of Finance, massive bu…"

"Although China attracted Belgian investors and missionaries from the 1860s, it is especially after 1900 that major in…"

"The British Municipal Council was empowered to install gas, water, and electric supply; tramways, or other means of f…"

"As the chairman of the Municipal Council of the British Concession in Tianjin, W. W. Dickinson, reported to the consu…"

"I was detailed with the 15th Infantry to rescue missionaries that were being trapped there. It was like they were pri…"

"Never, perhaps, was any Object in itself, abstractedly considered, less valuable, nor less worthy of public Attention…"

"Those isles of the sea are calling to me, The smell of the camp fire a dear memory. Though far I may roam, some day I…"

"There are many dark chapters in mankind's history ranging from transatlantic slave trade to holocaust to dropping of …"