FALSE IDEAS OF CHINA
A booklet disabusing readers of many prejudices and opinions regarding China and its people has been issued by the British Department of Overseas Trade. It states that the word " Chink" is ineultintr and should never be used; that even the word " Chinaman " is derogatory and should be avoided; that the Chinese are no longer "heathen Chinese"; that the sinister, yellow-skinned man of sensational type, found in novels and plays, is a myth; and, greatest surprise of all, that " Pidgin English " is dead, and that good English will carry the tourist everywhere in what used to be called the Celestial Empire. Tlue booklet states that the common idea that Chinese food is strange in composition and repulsiv c in appearance i'« also unfounded. It asserts that such dishes as birds' nesU. sharks' fins, -beche-de-mer —otherwise known as " sea-slug " —and even the famous " ancient eggs," have a pleasant and delectable flavour enhanced by the excellence of Chinese cooking.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22432, 29 November 1934, Page 2
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