![]() ![]() Others went bare-chested, sporting flowing black scarves around their waists. It was in this atmosphere of hunger and suspicion that a new kind of figure appeared on the plains. Some thought they might have even caused the flood and famine by offending the gods with their strange religion. But many of the plainspeople were suspicious of the foreigners. Christian missionaries-mostly Americans, British, and Germans-opened their doors to starving families. The ruling Qing dynasty, ensconced hundreds of miles away in the Forbidden City of Beijing, seemed indifferent to the farmers’ plight. Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire, Jonathan M. ![]()
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