Author Archives for Moritz T.

November 26, 2021 8:21 am Published by Leave your thoughts

„If the Upper Yangtze junks number from seven to eight thousand the men employed on them at the lowest estimate must be a quarter of...


November 25, 2021 11:07 am Published by Leave your thoughts

„A noisy and dirty rabble follows a stranger; mud is thrown (…) bad names are bandied freely (…)“


November 25, 2021 10:11 am Published by Leave your thoughts

„In them hundreds of people eat, sleep, bargain, gamble, cook, spin and quarrel, while they are the sculleries, sinks and sewers of not inconsiderable portion...


November 25, 2021 8:45 am Published by Leave your thoughts

«The linked system of superstition and torture, which enter largely into Chinese medical treatment, are undermined, and rational Western surgery is demanded by people.»


November 25, 2021 8:44 am Published by Leave your thoughts

«Cooking, washing, mending, eating and watching my occupation with far less interest than I watched theirs, filled up their day. Evening brought fresh kowtowing and...


November 23, 2021 5:29 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Sabbatai Zwi war eine exzentrische Figur: er war manisch-depressiv, verstiess immer wieder gegen die Regeln der jüdischen Orthodoxie, war mehrfach verheiratet, scheinbar aber kaum interessiert...