18692. VIEWS OF FOREIGNERS IN ANCIENT CHINA. This paper compares the depictions of non-Chinese people in the Analects of Confucius and the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian. Both writers regarded foreigners as “barbarians” and saw them as being inferior to the Chinese. KEYWORDS: history culture middle kingdom jingoism China Confucius. MLA Style. 5 pages, 12 footnotes, 2 bibliographic sources. 1,102 words.