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MR. PUTNAM WEALE'S BRILLIANT STUDY.
"THE VANISHED EMPIRE,"
My name is Ozymandias, king
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Look on my works, yo Mighty, and despair!
Nothing besido remains. From the pages of history we have the accounts of the rise, zenith, and decay of many kingdoms and empires. The exact cause of the decay of the great empires of the past-Minoan, Babylonian. Roman-has always been a difficult problem for the historian. Nearly
mophytic vapours of the dark ages. A BUSINESS BOOK. Even the compass led them to
geomancy and fung shut instead of INVALUABLE TO COMMERCIAL to navigation and astronomy.
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In the structure and science of language the Chinese developed SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CHINA
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Business
along the worst lines. For, though they had a written form of extend
The "Handbook of ed currency, the laboriousness of Training which has recently ap the formation of ideographe know beared in ita twelfth editidh, has no limits. The ppokon form was special reference to existing prac bound to degenerate into useless tice in China and contains valu- dialecta Even Inside the borders, alle information pertaining to of their own Empire there was modern methods of Commerce, It never any probability of its becom- should be a valuable asset not only ing a homogeneous or universal to the student of commercial sub- mode of communication.
jects but to every business man.
...
The misfortune in the structure. This well produced volume is not of the language bore its evil fruit only helpful to Chinese traders but the most closely dependents of value to the foreign business. in sciences. The syllogistic and legi- man who needs to know the methods cal processes, the gift of the crystal- of adjustment to at Westorn, buai- clear Greek language and thought, ess practices Into a Chinese on- seem to be almost absent from vironment. Chinesa terature and woll-nigh
For two years the author" (Mr.. a score of causes have been sug-totally lacking in the Chinese mind. S. S. Chow) Had charge of the Com- gested for the ultimate decay of the One has only to, read the speeches mercial Practica class at the Chi- Roman Empire. Possibly, no one by persons such as Dr. Sun Yat-sense Y.M.C.A. Evening School of Commerce, Shanghai, and he has
cause by itself is sufficient to" ac- and these are almost inspired in succeeded in this book in giving in i the eyes of Young China) to realise the hopelessness and fatuity of try ing to use the logical processes where the very faculty, for, their perception seems to be absent.
count for the curious dry-rot which seemed to gut into the very vitals of that Empire.
on. Telative ipping and and in any other book and the numerous and accurate reproductions of forms and vouchers necessary to business. routine will prove invaluable to be- ginners and new comers East,
to the
compact form the principles of modern business practice as deve loped in China. As a reference book on business technique in China it must take its place among the Now we have in process of enact-
Closely dependent on this, too, le best, if it is not itself the best, of ment before our eyes the death the total lack of ability either to books of its kind. agonles of another Empire, China, appreciate or formulate a sound Much of the inform
monetary or legal system.
to banking, insurance. like a great lumbering dinosaur a
The Chinese money system (customs is not to ho survival from some Mesozoic era, very eulogistic periphrasis for what has somehow falled utterly to ad- really exists) has gone from chaos to chaos, till now, like an inveterate just itself to twentieth century gambler who is down and out, the civilisation. She has simply cul-Chinese find it easier to associate with, and ally themselves to the lapsed.
Its use is not, however, limited to off scourings of Soviet Russia and
the student of commercial subjects, other beachcombers among the nations rather than face the legiti-for it bears evidence of sound prac
business knowledge tical mate arbitrament of international reumen brought to bear on equity.
blems which to the energetic for- Her law, where not purely arbeign business man, who wishes to (a) The Dominion of the Earth
trary, has in it. the remnants of waste.no time in an attempt to col- in which the growth of this Em-dilapidated custom which seems to Fact Information of a diverse na pire is traced.
defy codification. Indeed, Chinature, should be invaluable.
"Handbook of Business Train- (b) The Nemesls, of the Sea-seems to resemble nothing so much in which the weak point in the" as one of those great encased mening." by S. S. Chow, Commercial
sters such as Glyptotherium, which Press, Ltd., Shanghai] armoury of this Empire le dis-specialised in armour plates, but closed. 'And,
Mr. Putnam Weale's brilliant study, The Vanished Empire, is divided, like Gaul of old, into three
parts:-
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failed hopelessly notwithstanding.. c). The Battle that has no End, By an armature of remoteness, in which the miserable interne. Ponderosity and inhospitality China. kept her position of aloofness in eine struggle which has brought the world t the Nemesis of the
The current issue of the "China- Journal measured up generously her doom, is depicted. Mr. Putnam Sea" arrived. Then her armour- Weale always writes in a fascinat-plating of Celestial exclusiveness to the standard set by preceding of this very attractive ing manner.
He has a wonder-proved her undoing instead of her numbers
publication. The opening articl protection: fully broad and accurate knowledge
Mr. Putnam Weale seems to think in which the Editor comments <
the lack of knowledge of China anu of, affairs in the Far East, acquired that her early acceptance of things Chinese displayed by the at first hand and facilitated through Buddhism and more especially the average foreigner in China as well his linguistic gifts. The present Tartar devotion to Lamatum were
aa the younger generation of Chi- factors which aided her Imperial nese, is timely and to the point. volume is a worthy successor to its growth through their alliance We quote the closing paragraph of
The "Hunting Tours" of "Nim- predecessors which have added soith the Lama Church they claim this editorial Lut us, then, who rod" are very familiar, but another. much, to our knowledge of the ed Tibet as within their territory" live here, Chinese and foreign book by him which appeared the
p.82).. tangled conditions in the Far East.
But this very increase in alike,, make it our business to know year he died is almost unknown. It As we read Mr. Putnam Weale on Imperial dominion may have had in China, and, knowing China, let us consisted of hunting rerainiscences The Nemesis of the Sea' we cannot it the seed of her ruin. Sir Leslie see to it that the rest of the world which, hitherto, have not been re- Stephen somewhere says that un-is made to know her, too, for so will printed, and so are almost in the help feeling that he is probably profitable opinions decay by allying the stupid antagonism between yel-nature of a "find." Now the re- right and that if things had been themselves with effcte and decrepit low and white and the ignorance miniscences are about to be reissued handled slightly differently in institutions. And in a somewhat that breeds strife be dispelled." by the Bodley Head, with an intro- days gone by China might have similar way nations may decay and
The biographical sketch of Dr. duction by Mr. Shaw Sparrow. They brighter and better tale to. tell die by embracing decrepit religious Herbert Chatley, one of Shanghai's contain much fresh light on Squire to-day. Yet a doubt seems ever to beliefs and institutions. Rome fell leading citizens." and a scientist of Osbaldeston, Assheton Smith, and suggest itself whether China really to the mysteries of the bons dea: pote, is of considerable interest, other well-known hunting, men of ever had in her the basis of northern China took to Lamaism. especially as his activities along "Nimroda" day, The book has Other great What is the consequence to-day feature of Shanghai's intellectual sporting pictures and prints, and
numerous. lines Great World Power.
are so marked a been fully illustrated from old nations had some all-embracing "Lamaism, the religion of Mongolia. Fife. fund of knowledge-Babylonia, which was introduced from Tibet, astronomy; Greece, ethics: Rome, a largely responsible for the presal," a story translated from the
"The Sacrifice of Yang Chiao- there are some interesting maps. law to hand on to the world."sent decadence of the Mongol race. Chinese by El B. Howell, which be- But China had nothing. Consider The first-borneon of every familygina in this laque, is very entertain- the great fountains of knowledge "must enter the priesthood, and Ing and enlightening as to the from which guidance and advance "sometimes "all the boys become Chinese point of view on what ment come. Her religlon is bor Lagnas." In the temples, where loyalty to a friend may demand. rowed. She really never had a re they live, they spend their time Mr. Chang Hao-ch'un, of Soochow ligion of her own, Tasiam being atin chanting Tibetan prayers, which University, has contributed best a debased amalgam of divina- "they do not understand. They are scholarly paper entitled "The Philo- tion and magic.
human parasites, mentally and sophy of Chuang-tze" Interpreting "morally degraded, who exist by the thought system of one of China's
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Her ethic was more of a manual of etiquette and ceremony than a "preying upon the superstitions of greatest philosophers, whilst two foundation of ethical theory: Its the lay population." (On the poems of unusual merit appearing utter collapse in practice is shown Trial of Ancient Man by RC. An-In this issue, one by Robert Marrill by the curious moral obliquitydrews p.91). Be it cause or effect, Bartlett and another by Alan W. which seems to characterise "all it seems scarcely possible that a
Simms Lee, will attract favourable Young China total lack of virile and self-reliant people des comment.
Art lovers will be interested in respect for the sanctity of treaties, tined to be a power in the world, of loans, or of human life. Old could accept an emasculate religion the critique of Mr. Victor Podgour Chinese gentlemen sometimes say such àa Lamaism,, Be this as it sky's work as recently shows in an that. China's former ethical dignity may, national and social decay seem exhibit by this gifted artist. The might be regained by a return to most often to ally themselves with science section contains "Some Bird Sanctuaries in China" by George D. Confucius and the Classics, Butauperstition, fanaticism, and Wilder, Bird Migration Notes" by this is an impossible position shady type of international honour Rufus H. Lefever. The Amur Wild Young China has outgrown Con-China is not. free from them. Dis-Grape" by F. G. Whittick and "Fur- fucius; and the very fact that young trusted, dismembered, distracted, ther Notes on the Aborigines of China has discarded him is a tacit she has sunk into a group of war- Fükien" by C. R. Kellogg and admission that the Confuciun ethle
Chiang Ting-l, which discusses the was not destined Be a world
origin of the San Tak of Fukien force.
Province and gives interesting sidelights on their customs and superstitions.
ring factions, and disingenuoua warlords whose god is loot and in whose wake follow dismemberment and decay.
Science and scientific method in Its more technical aspect has al- The only hope and endeavour for ways been a closed book to the the surviving nations seems to be Chinese. Any discoveries they that she receive a hygienic but in may have even made have been lost expensive interment,
in the Sorbonian bog of tnagle and. The Vanished. Empire" by superstition, and have thereby help Putnam Weale, Macmillan & Co. ed to keep them bound in the 15/- net.]
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