The Chinese are not interested in South-East Asian towns until they have reached on their [own] initiative a certain level of population and prosperity.
They then descend like a flock of gregarious birds, galvanizing its life with their own crow-like vitality.
The feeble shoots of local culture wither away and what remains is a degenerative native slum round the hard, bright self-contained Chinese core.
Norman Lewis - A Dragon Apparent (1951)
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