:07:07
We can't threaten them into being our friends.
:07:10
- Exactly.
- Then what's the point?
:07:12
Now, you can hate the gunboats
and what they represent, Jameson,
:07:15
but you missionaries
are only tolerated because we have them.
:07:19
- l question that.
- The Chinese'd run you out, otherwise.
:07:22
They hate you and despise you.
Dare you know that?
:07:26
l dare love them in return,
and l dare trust God rather than guns.
:07:30
Yes, but when there are anti-foreign riots,
:07:33
how often have you fled
to the gunboat for protection?
:07:36
To my shame, twice. But never again.
:07:39
My name is Hamilton.
:07:41
- Holman.
- How do you do? This is Miss Eckert.
:07:44
And Mr Jameson. As you may have gathered,
Mr Jameson is a missionary. Miss Eckert, too.
:07:50
- And this is Mr Outscout.
- How do you do?
:07:53
British.
:07:55
- Where are you headed?
- Uh, San Pablo. Gunboat.
:08:00
Well, if l were you,
l'd jump overboard while l still had time.
:08:04
- Do you know anything about her?
- Uh-uh.
:08:06
American gunboats in central China
are a painful local joke, Mr Holman.
:08:10
- And the most painful is the San Pablo.
- Oh, yeah?
:08:14
l think she's something you chaps inherited
from Spain after the Spanish-American War.
:08:19
Well, l missed that one.
:08:21
They don't let her on the Yangtze proper.
They keep her up in some small river.
:08:26
You must know her.
She operates near Changsha.
:08:28
- Yes. We know her.
- Mr Jameson dislikes gunboats.
:08:33
Whatever flag they fly.
English, French, American...
:08:36
Symbols of what
the great powers did to this nation.
:08:39
Nation? Don't be ridiculous.
:08:41
lt's a patchwork quilt of bandits,
warlords, mobs, rape, loot and chaos.
:08:46
China will be unable
to put her own house in order
:08:49
until she is free of
your enslaving, unequal treaties.
:08:52
Foreigners collecting her taxes, placed
in charge of her Customs, postal system...
:08:57
Foreigners enjoying immunity from her laws.
Would we tolerate a Frenchman