Book excerpt: "As A Chinaman Saw Us: Passages from His Letters to a Friend at Home" by various and edited by Henry Pearson Gratton is a comedic yet cynical look at America through the eyes of a foreigner. Often not taken seriously, this book shows how the American dream and experience can be woefully overrated to people who come from vastly different cultures. Arranged as letters, this text gives readers an inside view at a different era in American immigration.