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Such is the street life of Peking, a phantasmagoria of excruciating incident, too bewildering to grasp, too aggressive to acquiesce in, too absorbing to escape.

— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Problems of the Far East: Japan–Korea–China (1894)

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