It is hardly surprising that this should have led to the birth of what the revolutionary writer Lu Xun described as the "sick man of Asia" who "lifts his head but does not dare to look the world, with a face full of deathly pallor."
如此這般，直到養出了魯迅筆下「抬頭不敢望天，滿臉裝出死相」的東亞病夫來了。