New York Tribune: “A fund of descriptive information.”
New York Times: “The British reviewers speak as enthusiastically of this book as the American journals have done. Written in a pleasant and easy manner.... He is the happy possessor of a highly developed efficiency and sense of humor.... Should prove agreeable to a great circle of readers.... Excellent descriptive powers and gift of observation.... Of inestimable use to the student, merchant or traveler.”
New York Sun: “Fresh and seeing eyes; a flowing pen; that human sympathy which counts greatly in gaining sympathetic readers; an astonishing quantity of facts presented with so light a hand as to invite the reader on almost every page; ... brilliantly clear photographs; Mr. Thomson’s text itself is almost pictorial.”
Chicago Journal: “The only readable book ever written about that weirdly interesting people.”
Columbus Journal: “A book that is believed to be the best English definition yet given of the Chinese and their country.”
Portland, Oregon, Chamber of Commerce Bulletin: “This volume is in the forefront of them all.”
Philadelphia Press: “For the American there is no book on China equal to this one.”
Pittsburgh Dispatch: “Our leading authority on Far Eastern questions; he enunciates the American doctrine of the Far East.”
London News: “Few writers have dealt satisfactorily with the subject, and there was plenty of room for such a book as The Chinese.... He has given a valuable and instructive picture of China as she stands to-day at her time of crisis.”
London Times: “Knows China intimately; keen eye for detail; terse and graphic style; ... mass of information.”