Definition of "Chinee"

But the hands that were played / By that heathen Chinee, / And the points that he made, / Were quite frightful to see,— / Till at last he put down a right bower, / Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.

1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James

We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee.

1910 September 10, Bayard Holmes, “Orphanotrophism”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 104, number 11, page 238