I Want to Teach the Whole World to Speak Chinese

As night fell, Lu Mingyuan wrote in his diary: "In 1750, the world was about to be reshaped by steam and artillery. There are two empires in the East dreaming of the old dream of heaven on both sides of the Great Wall. On the other side of the ocean, a giant steel beast is gestating. And I, a soul who should not be here, must let Chinese in this great change - not become an inscription in the museum, but become the language of the future. "