Civil Rights
Jun. 9, 2001
Biased Portrait
'A Chinaman is cold, cunning and distrustful; always ready to take advantage of those he has to deal with; extremely covetous and deceitful; quarrelsome, vindictive, but timid and dastardly." This is the description of residents of China contained in the 1842 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.




'A Chinaman is cold, cunning and distrustful; always ready to take advantage of those he has to deal with; extremely covetous and deceitful; quarrelsome, vindictive, but timid and dastardly." This is the description of residents of China contained in the 1842 edition of the Encyc...
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