“China’s population amazes the traveler. Here you never lose sight of a person, a person’s house or a person’s grave.” Egor Kovalevsky, Travels in China (1853).

Ivan Goncharov, writing from Hong Kong: “I am one of those travelers for whom travel is something of a torture. The moment I have to change my habit or my daily routine, see a new face, force myself to talk to someone, and particularly find my own underwear and clothing, and I just don’t want anything anymore.”

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