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WRITTEN MANDARIN
And The Chinese Classics
(By H. K. Woo)
In St. John's Review of the cur-, number of monosyllables" for any rent month appears an article in-language to draw upon to express tended to be a reply to the com- its ideas, and since Chinese con- ments made by me in a letter re- cently published in the local press on the question of the Chinese Classics.
1:
In that letter I maintained. in effect, that the language used in two of the books of the Confucian Classics is not by any means more difficult than the language used in
the Bible.
Ia support of my contention I
Ests of monosyllables only; it is obvious that one monosyllable has often to do the work which in an- other language is given to words of one, two, three or more syllables.
Chinese word cannot give rise to In its written form, however, a
any confusion, as one knows what is meant merely by looking at it.
SOMALILAND FRONTIER
Another Incident Reported
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dalls
Press" (Copyright).1
Rome, March 20 Another frontier incident In "No Man's land between Italian Somaliland and Abyssinia took place on Wednesday, threatening to increase the tension which is At Agable, south of the river of already causing great anxiety.
Debitscelebi armed bands over- It appears obvious then, that, even assuming that there is an-swept El Belt and Korogol ter- quoted from an article written by universal colloquial language Italian frontier guards, attacking. ritory at present occupied by the well known Chinese scholar the China, that language should not be the natives of Italian rationality late Mr. Leung Kai Chiu and bear-made the medium for literary pro and seized about 100 camels. Å ing the title "An Index of books ductions, for the study of Chinese in its
squad of Italian Soldiers chased earliest stages" which contains the
the robbers who however succeed- following among other
ed in crossing the Abyssinian Italian guards thereupon gave up frontier unrecognised, The
the chase so as to avoid further political complications,
ments:
state-
"
MULTIPLICITY OF DIALECTS There might be some point in arguing for a language written in the style of the colloquial if one "It is not too much to say that form of the colloquial language these two books regulate the ac were universal throughout China, tions of the mind and of the nr even throughout a large part of outward behaviour of the Chinese Chins, as the writer in the Review The texts in the Confucian Rems to assume, but the colloquial Analects and the Book of Men-language differs, as I said above, in clus are not by any means diffi-different places and at different
cult to understand.”
times...
The Italian legation at Addis lodge a formal protest with the Abeba has been instructed to Abyssiniar: Government and to claimed as soon as the damages notify that compensation will be
from Mogadiscía are assessed. This news comes
that the incident shows that de-" "Giornate D'Italia" remarks spite the neutral zone and repeat- of friendliness
Now, a written form of spoken Chinese would have to be based on one out of many dialects and would be simple only to those who speak that dialect: we
ed protestations" have already a written language by Abyssinia, public. feeling there common to all dialects, so why is still acute and anti-Italian.— should we seek to introduce an-Transscean Euo Min other?
THE CLASSICS
་་
In regard to the suggestion made in the Review of last February that these two books should be moder- nized, I pointed out that inasmuch, as a conservative like the late Mr. Leung Kai Chiu and a revolution- ary like Dr. Hu Shih are agreed
read even by beginners, any at- that the same can and should be
tempt to simplify their language would be both unnecessary and undimculty of the written form.
Now there is the question of the made by the Review as to its desirable.
merits ciseness might lead to obscurity but I am aware that excessive con-
this cannot be said of the two the Confucian Analects and the books in the Confucian Classics Book of Mencius which, I repeat, are to the Chinese people what the Bible is to Europeans.
The hours of trading, from Now the matter has been taken Monday to Friday, will be from
up again by St. John's Review. 1.20 to 1.25 p.m. and from 3.45 to While appreciating the keen in- 4.15 p.m..: and on Saturdays trad-terest taken-by-that paper on the ing will be from. 11.30am. to education of Chinese children. In 11.45 a.m.
thetr national language, I cannot will be for prompt help feeling that the arguments put Dealings delivery, up to three months. with forward bear unmistakable evid- dally clearings as for tin and
copper.
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in China is due not so much to the books as to the lack of educational aufculty-of-the-language of the facilities. Had there been schools or, better still, compulsory education it equally easy, if not more 50, to
would have ence that the author of the article
teach the poorer classes in the in question has been entirely mis-of styles some of which are terse traditional, as in the colloquial informed, and perhaps an explana- tion of the genesis of the Chinese paratively loose and shambling. know the words it will be impos
and lucid while others are com-language. If these people do not language would make matters There is the embellished style the sible for them to read any book at clearer.
principal feature of which is the at in whatever medfum they may carefully marked antithesis between be written. words in different clauses resulting
THE CHINESE LANGUAGE There is an inherent difference in form between the Chinese spek-
It must be remembered that the written language covers a multitude
It is for this reason that. I have
in a kind of parallelism or rhyth-no quarrel with the system ad-
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which 1,200 Chinese words are CLAIMS OF “KUO YU"
chosen for the purpose of educat- Because of the so-called dificuling the peasants. It is, in short, ties of the classical language then the lines of Basic English and ↳ writer in the Review wishes to sub- suitable for those who do not stitute a language which he calls aspire to any higher education. "Kuo Yu”
THE INFLUENCE OF CONFUCIUS
en language and the Chinese writ-mic balance, and there is the sim-vocated by M, James Yen under ten language. The uninitiated ple classical style, foreigner is at a loss to understand why books should be written in a language which he characterizes as being "divorced" from the spoken language, and until the exact nature of the difference and how originally arose is made clear to him it is difficult, if not impossible.. for him fully to grasp the position. It would appear that the passion for ferseness and lucidity on the part of Chinese scholars continued event after the introduction of printing, and the desire in the past to avoid physical labour has thus left its imprint on the present writ- ten language.
There seems to be general agreement that the Kuo Yu or national language can be master- ed by the pupil by the age of nine; and the child can then have the extreme joy and satis faction of appropriating whatever knowledge is available in the national language texts"?
We now see therefore firstly that the written form as it has beer used for centuries is the only practicable one and cannot be dis- placed by a form taken from the written form cannot be considered colloquial, and secondly that that.
es in any way dificult. But the Review goes even further than ad-
But this is not the chief cause, There is another reason why more ... · Now, Kuo Yu (which is translat-vocating a written style based on words must be used in the spoken ed by the Review as national the colloquial and challenges the than in the written language, and language is in fact merely the staternent made by the late Mr. that is that Chinese being a standard pronunciation of the Leung Kaf Chiu that.
monosyllabic language, the number mandarin vernacular, and not a
er its votables is necessarily umit-written form at all. It is therefore ed Since there is only a limited difficult to understand the claims
The
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"It is not too un to say that these two books regulate the ac tions of the mind.and of the out- ward behaviour of the Chinese”
And in support of its contentions says that there is not a temple to Confucius in China which is not in a sad state of neglect.
It is true that there are a great number of illiterate people in China, but one may be imbued with the Confucian doctrines without These index numbers represent knowing the Confucian Classics the estimated monthly receipts! from trafft as related to
Every word, phrase, sentence or com- chapter in the Confucian Classics parable trame in the year 1929 had been set as a subject for essays It should be noted that since 1929 in the literary examinations of the operation in various overseas China. Those who were successful areas has been taken over at dif-in such examinations: became
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An index number, will be issued in time for publication on the 20th of each month, and as the course ferent dates by the local associat-magistrates, governors and minis of these traffic receipts has al- ed companies, and the total figures ters of state. The laws of China ways afforded a valuable indica- for 1929 taken for purpose of were based on the teashing of Con- tion of world trading and commer-comparison in establishing the fucius and through the administrstand the Gospel parables, simple cial activity, it is hoped that, in index 100, have therefore addition to providing an indica- adjusted when necessary by the made acquainted with the spirit of gather much moral instruction been tion of such laws the masses were though they may be in style, or tion of the Company's trame for omission of the receipts accruing Confucianism. Furthermore from the stories of Old Testament its stockholders, it will be found in the areas affected. The index every village there was at least one Kings and Prophets, unaided by of value to observers of world numbers are, in consequence, all ancestral economic conditions.
volumitious comment and explans- tion?
The Chinese Classics are rever enced not only for the moral in- struction they convey but also, and The Confucian Classics, we ad-as highly, for their literary style, mit, may, to begin with, be too and while it is only right to intro- dimcult for a young child not duce their precepts at an early age much in style as in content, but their lessons can be, as it were, dis tilled and given to them in a aim
January
February
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temple where the shown upon a comparable basis. villagers attended to hear the Monthly Agures reduced to working day average.
preaching of the doctrines by their elders. Working day average of comparable receipts, year 1829=100. 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 98.0 76.3 73.4 69.9 71:8 73.2 95.7 81.2 82.9 71.1 747 744 94.5 79.6 77.8 70.4 72.8 * 94.9 74.5 74 71.5 71.8 80.2 688 67:770.7 73.1 88.0 66.67 847 701 70:1 808647 6312 8TH 68.g. 92.14 618 69:6 69.9 70.7 81.4 73.0 71.4 67.9 70.3 82.5 77.8 732 721 75:87
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pler form, in the same way as
stories from the Bible are told to children at an early age.
The enter in the Review speaks
a great deal of the simplicity of the
in a simple form to children, the children must ultimately be led on to the source.
Just as the literary beauty Shakespeare is too sacred to tampered with, so the style of the Chinese Classics sho
be preserved Intact.
Bible, but surely one cannot conthe interest of something wder that, childrens really under important then literary style,
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THE AMBULANCE
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Returns For February
New Totals Cases Cates. 1,812 3339 550 1,621
Tun Mum
Ha Tauen
MIKET MONSIE
347 776% 300 680
Totala 5,082 11.656.
REMARKS
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