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BOOKS ABOUT CHINA
FASCINATION OF CHINESE PSYCHOLOGY FOR WESTERNERS.
PROFESSOR MIDDLETON SMITH'S
ADDRESS.
In the latter part of his addrem to the English Association Profes
or Middleton Smith said:
One of the most robable writers upon China is Dr. Morso. He en tored the Customs service in 1874, coming (As he says) "To Chins
vention n
Demuth spiritual thing as to be attributed
one of the greatest gode." Young Chink will have none of the attitude of Gandhi and Chesterion, looking backwards-with-longing
Novels About China.
In the cad the Amerian youth and the Chinese girl decide to part, Ho goes back to his own people and she remains with here It has a certain amount of charm, and not a happy ending. But the story
the old, old story of the way of a man with a maid is given day un- No one yet seems to have retauni, setting. It is handled with writton what might be called a deliency and, for all its unusual frat-cinas novel about Chinn
ending, das pleased many readers. It is true that last year Miss Stolla Benson published "Tobit Transplanted and that no less a eritio than Hugh Walpole wrote that i was the best book of 1901 But the novel is not altogether about China
I suppose that the three most popular authors of such novels are Mrs. Miln, Patman Weale and Pearl Buck.
"antire history of the world no auch mis-application of montal labour in to ba found as in China; yet of this the Chines themselves have always remained happily unconscious.' The name of Professor Giles in direct from the halla of fair Haro well-known in connection with
"The Good Earth." Yard." He is, I believe, now British subject and has spent many introduction to this audience. Yet the story that will live longer than China that probably ho neods no
Pearl Buok has, perhaps, written years in England devoting himself I must remind you of his anterany other yet published to literary work.
taining contribution Chinese skel- The Good Earth first appear Perhaps his most famous offort isakes (1876). His Intest effort ised in Grant Britain in 1931: it The Trade and Administration of hans in China (1924). And the quickly ran to a second edition. It China, first published in 1907 and name of Rodney Gilbert should ba is a description of the life of a subsequently revised.
I found also his four volumes mentioned as a writer of distine Chinese farmer of the early twens "East India Company Trading in
tion on recent events,
tieth century. There is really not. China" interesting.
much of a story, no great effort to. make a plot, ne romance 19 we understand the word, but rather a of the agricultural and domestic lile that is the lot of so many millions. in China..
Old Forces in New China. A voxy favourite topia with
The Eternal Pifnators. "" A prolife writer on affairs in China was the late Putman Wenlo who was murdered in Tientsin two cr three years ago Not only did. he produce books concerning poli- ties in the Far East, as well as countless newspaper articles but ho must be numbered amongst the novelists. With the exception of "The Indiscreet Letters from Peking," I found at of his books
a master of the language and found the man. rather disappointing; sad no I Born in Chinn,
seript he know his subject woll Yet it seemed to me that there was something cynical, something that might cause you to lose faith in human nature, about his writinga and his conversation.
Eternal Pricatossa novel of I have heard it said that "The
Chinh manners-is the best. It is
concession hunting ern of thirty Years ago,
"The Unknown God might plaas some of you better. It deals with the old problem of missionary endeavour in Ching
In the preface he says that "at the end of the fifteenth century writers, especially novelists, in the readable tale of the ups and downs mostly about Shanghai life in the trade with India was cut off ba- case of tho substitution of Tar clash between the old static ideas kish for Saraconic power in the that are part of the Chinese system Levant. So the sailors soarched for of philosophy, and the dynamic out, a route to India and discovered, look of the West About twenty many new lands
years ago an American Profesor And I remember that our. first of Sociology E. A. Rows wrote Vice Chancellor, Sir Charles 'Elibt, / "The Changing China." told me that it was because of thà I have read this book three times, building of the Great Wall of at fairly long intervals, and a China that the Turks care to Eu recommend it to anyone interested rope. These hordes of wild horse in the study of human nature. The men swept noross Ania hoping to stane may be said of George Lan. conquer unknown Cathay "The ning's "Old Forces in new China" "PUBLIC AUCTION.
Great Wall acted as a breakwater which also appeared first in 1912 note on angry waves. The recoil There is one sentence that is worth Pole by Public Austion to back to Europe, where for more
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I think that the author must have been saturated in Biblical phrasco logy beesuse many of the sentences are like those found in the Old Typhoons and Hong Kong.. Testament. And at times the book China Sens" (by Crosbie Gar reminded me of the Devonshire atin) entertained me, possibly be- tales of Eden Phippta. It is free use it is descriptive of Hong in ita reference to trimitive emo-Kong and life on the China coast. tions and deals bluntly with anx It isn't the story itself that affairs, We know that Chinese pleases; that gives the usual picture workers and country folk of all of a hurid Far Eastern life which nations do talk freely on these most novelists depict and which can be found if searched for, in The Chinese is a barn trader. The Unspoiled Face of Maturi, any of the great sea ports of the Had he been left untrammelled by interference from his rulers be character, the rough illiterate Ch that appens to an old resident in The rude instinct of the whist world; it is the local atmosphere. would by this time have built up anese peasant, for the soil awakens tion of a typhoon during a voyage
Hong Kong. There is a descrip commerce which in all probability response in all our hearta. This from some place near Singapore to would have been many times great feeling was expressed in beautiful Last year there appeared an in-er than it now is he would have language by Profeser Trevelyan in Hong Kong Inter on there is a teresting book entitled Facets of acted all differences of opinion a lecture recently delivered in Willhayes was a Laipan, breath- piracy. The following is amusing: Gull who is secretary of the China enriched his country in endless considered the comfort and the Peak whither he was borne from the Chinese Question by E. M.without war; he would thus have University College, London. Heing the rarified atmosphere of the Association in London. He lived ways." for years in the Far East. By the booka "Two Gentlemen of China mankind. And he said:"It is were with fellow taipans and great mystery and the inspiration that his offices in a chair carried by four Lady Hosie has written two the unspoiled face of natuurs is uniformed coolies. nature of his present work he is and "Portrait of a Chinese Lady."natural brotherly love that we fool Chinese merchants, his social inter His dealings kept closely in touch with the com- They have been praised by to for trees, flowers, even for grasses, mercial and political affairs that affect Anglo-Chinese trade..
viewers, although most men will nay even for rocks and water. Wa
course with the Naval and Military, It is curious, therefore, that he think them "Sloppy" with excess of and they are all, literally, children the Government House set." appears to be reluctant to enterentiment. I confess that I found of earth, for we have been evolved He says that he is retiring. fully into contemporary probleme, her gushing style irritating. If, as science teaches us out of earth Cheng Eu-how they first met as He talks of his old friend Li Que obtains the impression that he however, you like that sort of thing by infinite generatione, Even signa for "the good old days" and wall, that is the sort of thing you those of us who are engaged in the young men in business. "Ho is not sanguine about the future like. A scholarly friend recently mass-production of machinery, or gradually went to the head of his Does he think that all of these now reminded me, that Mr. Punch mid University graduates, often long for arm. I to mine." One day Li told ideas about sociology, micaca and of another authores "The lady this calm of the woods, the greep the tainan that he was going back mass-production will in the end adles undiluted sentimental shushmeadow find the peaceful stream from Hong Kong to his native place "I asked him fail to affect life in China? Does from the slop-pail of a full heart? The sountryside is indeed, the retirement.
"He look The cling to the idea that there will
highest common denominator in the way, sail the taipan. be no changes due to the moderns
spiritual life of today. It meta an
ed sideways at me. "it is such as Darwin, Henry Ford and
a comforter and giver of strength.
not wise for a man to outstay his Mario Stopes
"The "Good Earth' makes us
friends." realise this natural brotherly
So he went.
his going love that all of us, including the left a gap and what he said sank Chinese peasant. feel for the un
Looked around, previotis spoiled face of nature,
few of the old guard left."
The Wallet of Kal Lang. This is the most mirth-provoking volume concerning life in China that has come my way. It is so ely humour, and yet so true to old style life in China.
The Psychologists at Work. Let us now consider books con- cerning social customs and politi-the advantage that, as each chapter This book delighted me. It has, cal problems. I have already men more or less independent of tioned Dr. A. H. Smith's great. UNSAVOURY CASE IN N.T. contribution "Chinese Characteris others, you can pick it up at any Lies," Second only to this is his time and obtain a smile. But to *Village Life in: China,"
appreciate it fully you want to know He was for thirty ave years something about Chinese customs missionary and as far as I know and etiquette.
DEFENDANT DISCHARGED..
A
In a Chinese Garden,
irt
.
words, and many others, made it Critics might deal hardly with this book. Yet to me the above
seem real.
Louise Bordan Miln has written n number of novel about China Of those that I have read I liked best In a Shantung Garden," It Hong Kong.
There are some other novels about "The Uncharted
is the story of a healthy young Seas" by King Hall' is about the American who came out to Shar-big strike, but not very accurate. he wrote five books. It seems un- Kai Lung's Golden Hours by The ease in which charges of rape his two, classics,
Cessary to give extracts from the same author, also, is a splendid on business and who became The others are not to mich in-
friendly with a charming Chines tercat tonic at the end of a weary day.
because
and attempted rape were brought page is well worth reading. No.
cvery
China's Own Critics."
against Shing Yong On, & youth atone visiting China, should fail to Bung Han Village, Sai Kung, New buy them. They are the open It is my humble conviction that Territories by a girl named Won ledge about the most numerous and in the English language. He is one.
sesame to so many halls of know- Dr. Hu Shih is a brilliant writer, Kim, had a sequel in the Count of a very likeable people. At times of the prominent members of the the District Officer South yesterday amusing, always accurate, this mis- Chinese intelligentsib who have
sionary also was afternoon.
not sanguine written a series of essays which about the future of the country in they have published under the which he had spent most of his above title. life.
The Publishers announced that the volume would be unpleasant rending for many people smaak.
Sergeant Wiliams prosecuted while Mr. Peter H. Sin defended the accused and entered a plea of«
Intellectual Turbidity.
racteristics of its inhabitants collection, it seemed to me that Writers on Egypt and India do not members of the old school of trouble much about the psychology learning would be furious if they of Egyptians and Indians, but read the contents, many writers have tried to psycho- analyse the Far Eastern mind,
2
This is an extazot-
"not guilty." In outlining the The Late Sir Charles Elliot ipling sa it does many of the idols case to his Worship (Mr. J. 5.(1607) mentions the peculiar spellness alike, in an honest attempt to bis "Letters from the Far East worshipped by foreigners and Chi- Maclaren), Sergeant Williams said which China casts on Europeans. arrive at a truthful picture of that the complainant lived with her. It obliges almost everyone who kina." parents who kept an opium divan writes about it to discuss the cha- When I had finished this startling. in the village. The alleged offence was committed on January 3 this year, the girl being then only 15 years of age. On the day in ques tion the girl's parents were out, and
Sir Charles mentions that Dr. unequal treaties' primarily, nor by China is being ruined, not by it would be proved that the agised Smith gives "intellectua!
tarbi banditry and militarism in the past committed rape against the girl and caustically comments that it tism." but by the vagabond-lika dity as a Chinese characteristic analysis, nor by oficial obscuTSE who was subsequently examined by most certainly exists to-day in attitude of life which seems to a doctor. The mother of the girl, America. He adds that in Great upon being informed of the matter, turbidity, but a hatred of clear wicked world we are living in, but Britain not only is there mental
BBY:
Dog-gone it! This is a pretty baid information to the police. The thinking and lucid
1why take it so seriously Take it officer, further stated that the ac or of the strongest national cha masy, boy, for what is the use off cused was the son of a shopkeeper actoristic, "An average British fussing? Cheer up, and make your Cabinet" he writes "contains in the village of Hang Hau and cough intellectual turbidity to shines."
own pile of hay quick, while the sug that evidence would be called" to supply a whole Chinesa mob." corroborate the girl's story.
statement
The Memoriter Drudgery.
"These "modern Chinese writerá, you soo, are in the ranks of the 1.pessimists. The last Bentenos in the book refers to the hollow, reverberant laugh of old China, ni the touch of whose breath, every fewer of enthusiasm, and hope must wither and die."
Yet China, remains to-day the "For intellectual toil the most numerous nation, the one Chinese have a phenomenal ta people that has been irrespressible. lent. They are willing to submit for at least forty centuries, the to years of memoriter drudgery great enigma of the world.
In the witness box the girl stated that she did not try to sliput when There is one quotation which the alleged offence was committed should like to make from Dr. by the accused and that the was Smith's "China and America of To not afraid of him, Questioned by day." It concerns the amazing in the Magistrate, she admitted that dustry of the Chinese student. It she had relations with the nccused reads as follows en a previous occasion, She fur- thor, admitted that one Av. Kom enght them the day in question" and it was he who persuaded her mother to prosecute the defendant, After gomir into the case at some length, Mr Bi submitted that on the evidenco before the Court there was no cash for his client to answer. and his Worship agrecint, dismise...” nd the cla alid disebarged the defendant.
for the mere chance of entering Dr. Hu Shih in appalled by the an examination, where it is cer-poverty and ignorance in China. tain that not more than two—or | Our forefathers were quite right: evon one-in an hundred can in defying the makers of tolle:" he PMB: nad when they have pass fries and again there is no such ad, this process (according to thing as a purely material civilis- the old regime has to be indefition--when man first made fire hy nitely repeated. Perhaps in the accidentally drilling wood the in
girl.
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