Excerpt from The "Ever-Victorious Army": A History of the Chinese Campaign Under Lt.-Col. C. G. Gordon, C. B. R. E., And of the Suppression of the Tai-Ping Rebellion
The words Foreigner and Foreign, when commenced with a capital letter, refer to the Europeans and Americans in... Læs mere China as opposed to the people of the country. Hence Foreign is a proper name nearly equivalent to the term Occidental, which some writers use in its place.
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