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The Chinese and the Chinese Question (Classic Reprint)

By Whitney, James A.

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The Chinese and the Chinese Question (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Chinese and the Chinese Question For it is only through the study of the past of China that one may form a clear conception of the present character and tendencies of her people. And this conception, when gained, must constitute the basis of all accurate perception of her future relations with the outside world. A population com prising one third of the human race. Of a mental, moral and physical type indigenous to the soil, unmodified by external in?uences and intensified by isolation and successive repetition through tens of centuries, must, in the nature of things, possess an inertia peculiarly its owm. The future direction of this can only be foreseen from a knowledge of its line of movement in former times. The slow but progressive de velopment of China has produced a civilization in which the low level of moral and physical life incident to debased and enslaved races is strangely combined with an intellectual vigor that, in all the requirements and vicissitudes of a complex social and political system, has proved itself equal to the pro motion of learning and the extension of arts. And to the elaboration of methods and traditions of state-craft not inferior to those that have controlled the policy of European countries and of our own. To understand this, and the logical outcome thereof, is manifestly the first step to a proper appreciation of the conditions of the con?ict, peaceful or otherwise, impending between the Turanian and the Aryan races. And such an understanding is best gained by the laborious but fruitful process of tracing the development of China through its salient causes and more noticeable results from the time when off shoots of unlettered tribes crept downward from the Altair mountains to find homes on the marshy borders of the Hoang-llo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Number of Pages:
98
Release Date:
2018-01-14
Publication Date:
2018-01-14
Publisher:
Forgotten Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0483112321
ISBN13:
9780483112322
Weight:
305 g
Height:
159 cm
Width:
239 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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