Chinese language

“Chinese [...] differs from other languages as much as if it were spoken by the inhabitants of another planet.”

“Chinese may be called the Latin of the Far East. For, just as Rome through her higher civilisation lent thousands of words to the semi-savages hovering along her borders, so China has furnished all the surrounding peoples with their scientific, legal, philosophical and religious terminology.”

“A new Chinese language of vastly greater capacity than the old is coming into use through the currency of newspapers, the influence of which is perhaps the greatest outward force in China to-day, and in spite of police surveillance tends to increase.”