The Last Days of Old Beijing Quotes

“He hated cocktail parties--"you see the same people again and again and it becomes boring"--and found the Westerners who hung around the Peking club "rather ridiculous. Very small frogs in a very small pond acting like they were big frogs in an ocean.”
― Michael Meyer, The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed