“The Chinese economy would be brutally transformed into the mightiest manufacturing nation based on western capital and on an abundance of cheap, highly submissive labour.”

—  Peter Cain

Source: J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002), p. 10.

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