Drugging a Nation, the Story of China And the Opium Curse : a Personal Investigation, During An Extended Tour, of the Present Conditions of the Opium Trade in China And Its Effects Upon the Nation
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Well, for one thing, she sees Shanghai. Shanghai has been called the Paris of the ex- treme East. It is the paradise of the adventurer and the adventuress, of the gambler, the beach- comber, and the long-chance promoter. Midway of the China Coast, at the mouth of the mighty Yangtse River, it is the principal port of entrance into China. From England, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, the United States, and Canada comes an endless column of steamships to Shanghai. To Hongkong, Saigon, Bangkok, ...Singapore, Chefoo, Tientsin, and the uppermost ports of the Yangtse, 1,250 miles inland, go end- less columns of steamships from Shanghai. And of the travellers on these ships nearly all have, or expect to have, or have had, business or pleasure at Shanghai. Sowing the Wind in China 103 It is the most truly cosmopolitan city in the world ; for Paris, after all, is mainly French ; Lon- don, after all, is mainly English ; New York, after all, is mainly American. .ShflJighaLJias its French hotels, its imposing German Club, its English Country Club, its race-track, its Russian Bank, its Japanese mercantile houses, its Ameri- can post-office.
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