″‘Class, I’d like us all to give a warm Mayflower welcome to your new friend and classmate Jing Jang!’
‘Jin Wang.’
‘Jin Wang! He and his family moved to our neighborhood all the way from China!’
‘San Francisco.’
‘San Francisco!‘”
“I’ve read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I’ve made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.”
Thirteen-year-old Theodore has lived in China all his life and never felt terror, until his father’s missionary settlement is attacked and burned in the night.
“In China they killed all the sparrows. In Australia they killed all the rabbits. Everywhere man killed all wild life. Soon there was none, and all the birds were poisoned. Leader man said ‘At last! We are free of pests.‘”