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James Perry's avatar

Great write up. Many of my great-great-grandparents were stationed in Asia with the British Empire. I'm sure they saw and did some fairly awful things. I'll look forward to the other parts of this story.

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Robert Swanson's avatar

Thank you James! And this is not meant to be a one size fits all narrative and is not meant to condemn all British people. Again this is am earlier essay, but I think I might show the nuance of how imperialism worked with people more. Some of the people in this story had lots of respect for the Chinese culture and I'm not sure that always came through in my narrative. Thank you for your comment!

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