„At that time, though missionaries had been settled at Wan for some years and had been able to rent this beautiful house, there was not...

„(…) as no carpenter would work during New Year’s holidays.“

Trackers at work

„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...

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

„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...

Suizid aus Rachemotiven

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

«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...