Truculent and lawless, regarding all Eastern peoples as legitimate prey, they were little if any better than . . . pirates.
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Kenneth Scott Latourette quoted in Will Durant and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization, Book I, Our Oriental Heritage (1935) (CHAPTER XXVII Revolution and Renewal) LATOURETTE, K. S.: The Chinese: Their History and Culture. 2v. New York, 1934.