 By contrast , Lewis S. Gannett of The Nation criticized Townsend for writing an " apology for Japan " and painting the Chinese as " all alike , all generically different from Japanese and Westerners " . A similarly negative assessment published in The China Weekly Review observed that " A Chinese might easily write a similar book and by emphasizing the activities of the Capones and Dillingers , the bootleggers , kidnappers and racketeers , prove to his own satisfaction at least that the Americans constituted a degenerate branch of the white race . " The Republican concluded its review of the book with " Throughout the presentation of his observations runs a thread of ill @-@ considered bias which taints his words . We must look to other ... more discerning writers for the truth about China . " 
