place
China
also: Китай
Named here purely for comic remoteness -- a mock pamphlet about repealing the duty on bamboo canes imported from China reads as bureaucratic parody, not genuine trade commentary.
Reading notes
- Advertisements and Notices §9 China
Named here purely for comic remoteness -- a mock pamphlet about the tariff on an absurdly specific import (bamboo canes) reads as bureaucratic parody, not genuine trade commentary.
- In Moscow §12 China and Persia
Named as the stock far-off trading partners Moscow merchants vaguely gesture toward opening relations with, though neither the narrator nor his merchant companions know anything real about either country.