 Ways That Are Dark continues to be noted for its Sinophobic viewpoint . In 1985 the historian Frank P. Mintz called it " a classic in the literature of Sinophobia . " In 2000 the scholar Yong Chen referred to Townsend 's attitude towards the ethnic characteristics of the Chinese people as being derivative of " the anti @-@ Chinese prejudice that nineteenth @-@ century writers had propagated . " In 2004 the writer Gregory Clark described it as " a viciously anti @-@ China book " that " contrasts an allegedly dirty , devious Chinese nation with the trustworthy , hardworking Japanese " . 
