Harper’sWeekly, December 10, 1881, page 823 (News Briefs)
A party of
Chinese students, who arrived at Shanghai from America early in
October, were at once locked up in an old building in a remote part
of the town, "the government’s intention being apparently to
examine them before they had a chance to scatter to their
homes." The first party, comprising about forty students, who
were ordered home, were sent to Tien-tsin to be employed on
telegraph work.