For me it's easier when it's obvious that certain things are overlooked because of Laurence's bias, actually (he's made me so angry at times, but in those cases I get the feeling that I should be angry with him, that that's what the text was going for). It's when it seems as if the writer herself hasn't realised the problem that things become... worrisome. On the other hand, I might totally be misunderstanding things; it's not as if I know what the author thinks, heh.

But I don't know, I just found the Chinese rather stereotypical. I mean, I'm hardly an expert on China of that era (or any era for that matter), but they all seemed so inhumanly ruled by their traditions.