Beijing Pulls Welcome Mat for Foreigners

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Andrew Browne, Looking to Mao, Beijing Pulls Welcome Mat for Foreigners. Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2016.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-rolls-up-welcome-mat-1462251879

the first two paragraphs:

"SHANGHAI— Henry Luce, the founder of Time magazine, was raised in China as the son of a Presbyterian missionary.

"He and his family were among a population of foreigners that swelled to as many as half a million before 1949. Some were teachers, doctors and journalists. Others were merchants, engineers, architects and bankers. Within a few years of the Communist takeover almost all had fled or been kicked out. Mao harbored such loathing for Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, that he considered emptying it out completely after the revolution.

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest.
(b) PRC took its first census in 1953. China's population in 1949 was believed to be 542 million. So that year one out of a thousand residents in China was a foreigner.