A final picture is given of European ghosts in Peiping—an admittedly impressionist sketch which ends with a brief account of a visit to a collective farm on the Amur where Chinese had got into top-boots and taken Russian wives:
The women were at work in the fields, sorting out mountains of carrots, while the half-caste -children slept in their kindergarten. The head of the collective farm, a big Chinese with slow, dignified movements, was walking about among the vegetable beds, now and then stooping to pull
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