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CHINA'S NATIONAL RENAISSANCE
What The New Life"
Stands For
An analyals of the background will clarify the complexities of the present position.
(Continued from Page 1)
Under the code of the New Late } order of the New Lite Movement, Movement gambling is, absolutely then the better-class women fol- and rigorously suppressed. There|lowed suit and saw to it that those was, for instance, a place 'not far under their jurisdiction dia like- distant from Hong Kong which was wise. It was left to a few daring the Monte Carlo of China. Of "sociales" and cabaret stars to en- course, it was one of the “sights" Ideavour to flout the law. Some of listed on every tourist's programme the incidents which occurred when ---even those blissful' people who
the police were enforcing this Daively set forth to "see China in twenty-four hours." Ancient tombs, magnificent scenic panoramas and national customs all paled into in- significance compared with this trip to the gambling haunt which attracted thousands every night tre of Canton In recent years, from
and more every week-end. So subordinates, when solleftuous for the wellbeing of the
For nearly two thousand years the teaching of virtue and moral conduct in the West has been plated mainly in the hands of the Church "In China, Confuscianism. which produced neither a church nor religious ceremonials, has been responsible to a great extent for maintaining the nation's moml standards.
the overthrow of the Manchus in 1011, with the Introduction of cer-
tain phases of Western civilization,patrons were the managers of the the Chinese youth became so en amoured of Western material pro- gress and military power, that he became inclined to regard with a semblance of contempt all things Chinese, particularly the old Con- fucian morality. The fact remain- ed. however, that Confucianism held China Proper together for longer than Christianity has held sway in the West. So, if Con-
gambling resorts in this place, that you were given three dollära to see you through till the banks opened the next day if you were returning to Hong Kong that night. If you were endowed with such child-like falth as to come there with only a single ticket, then the manage- ment, with all the suavity of the Orient, pressed a return ticket into your clammy hands a sort of gild- fucianism were thrown aside, whating to the philosophic pin. In fact, was to be substituted for the re-
nation? generation of the soul of the
this place was a national institution which brought millions of dollars to the exchequer.
Sincerely desirous of eradicating everything that might sap the his people, moral strength of Chiang Kai-shek decided that, to remain constant to the spirit and the letter of the New Life Move
gambling form of
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would have to be stopped, and he commenced by peremptorily order ing the closing of this and all other gambling haunts.
The outcry against this "despo tic act" was piercing, but Chiang Kai-shek had faced yelling hordes
order were not without their humorous side. For instance, there WIS the Case of the handsome young officer of. police sauntering along the most fashionable shopping cen- followed by two
1 gorgeous creature combining the cosmetic
adroitness of Parls with the in- sinuating gracefulness of the attracted the officer's, attention Orient in contour and movement,
tand that of many others) by pay- ing very obvious attention to a beautiful jade garter or an equally beautiful sallow leg.. Her svelte gown was "alashed" just a frac tion above the decreed territorial Umit. In s at of virtue, the oFFICET commanded his men to arrest the attractive Httle lady without more ado. Her protestations were fran- tic, as only an irate Chinese girl's can be. She pushed, shoved and scratched. Eventually the officer himself, embarrassed by the at- tention this scene was attracting and the poor showing his men were a hand himself. making, took But, whilst he held his gorgeous captive in a manner which ap proximated to an threw her ofly curled head back. 'and, eyes' flashing scornfully, de- clared, "Very well, you mean little beast-dance with some other girl
embrace, she
at the cabaret to-night, and don't
of political fanatics and the load-pester mo!"
ed rifles of traitorous soldiery, and But duty is duty, and she was, this yelping troubled him not at as hundreds of other recalcitrants all. He had announced his plat- were, arrested and heavily fined. form for the regeneration of the nation: It had been endorsed by the Executive Yuan; he was the commander of the nation--and he would have his commands carried out
the "ruined" establishments whose existence had ruined God knows
withstand the primeval appeal of how many people who could not
"something for nothing."
That is the aim and ideal of the
But money talks. Eforts were New Life Movement, and in Nan-made to obtain compensation for. chang the Generalissimo emphasis- ed the following eight cardinal vir- tues as the planks of his platform: (1) Filial Piety; (2) Brotherly Love: (3) Loyalty to the State; (4) Faith- fulness among Friends: (5) Pro- priety in. Manners and Social Etiquette; (6) Righteousness (and justice); (7) Personal Integrity; (B) Sense of Honour (and Shame).
"You must work for your living. or the nation will perish," he re- plled, and they went away cursing Impotently.
These cardinal virtues were taken Severo penalties were imposed by from the old Confucian morality, the National Government from its and from the West the Generalis-seat at Nanking on any who vio- simo selected such qualities and lated the gambling prohibition. habits as would enable the Chinese Fines; imprisonment; death.
come to
to maintain their equality with the No longer is the fascinating most advanced nations of the clatter of the Mah-jong pawns world.. In this connection he heard in China. You stressed such features as neatness Hong Kong, that great fortified and smart appearance; cleanliness;
sanctuary under the British flag." respect for order; punctuality: to hear that and a lot more, responsibility and efficiency.
Then there was the matter of
Education Through Publicity dress Whilst it might be alright Throughout the length and ficent proportions to the world,
ment.”
for a coolle to show his magni-
women,
breadth of this Fast country vigorous publicity campaigns, en-
yet women. even coolle must be decently clad. thusiastically-directed have been prosecuted even in the remotest
The standard of decency was of definition la a villages where only diagrams could not difficult convey the message to an almost nation where the vast majority of entirely fliterate public. For in the women dress after the same stance, recently there was a fashion. In China Proper 1: 18 three months' education-through- very rarely that one sees a woman publicity drive in Canton, and in Western attire: their own tradi- one who watched, closely the tional dress is far more beautiful progress of that campaign told me and glamorous Tight at the neck In all sincerity that he really felt almost buttoned to the ears that "Canton has been baptised in and tr that extremity. "right the spirit of the New Life Move- to the ground, the multi-hued silken or cotton gown clings to the Undoubtedly the publicity is very figure, Desirous of displaying the practical in the technical display contour of the body in almost and is characterised by a minimum anatomical detall, the ladies had of "lecturing from the poster." "I adopted the fashion of having the saw the Safety First" series at lower part of the gown (and day poaters in Canton with groups óf) and night attire is of a similar people from silken robed merchants pattern-one, of course, refrains to Toln-clothed coolles gazing side from dilating on the intimacies of by side at posters in black and the bed-chamber where privacy white with huge splashes of blood permits latitude) "slashed" to the oozingy from all parts of prone knee on one side, usually the left. bodies the results of carelessness The effect was most alluring. 80 in crossing & heavily trafficked much so, that before the adminis street. Bome laughed and joked-trators of the New Life Movement the Chinese, although a delicately got to work, the "slashings" be- feeling people in whom affection 18
came extravagant beyond the first nature, yet have a strange bounds of modesty. callousness where tragedy is con- cerned and passed on their ways. 8o. it was decreed that "slash
When I asked an elegant gentle-nge were bermissable only so far man in silk what was the burden of motion, and the prohibition was as to permit of reasonable freedom
of their comments, he bowingly and smilingly replied, "What you say inade for any dreas to be "alashed" English. That will learn you! any higher than just below the
knee
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People laughed: Westerners feer-
And Dress Gambling From the old go-as-you pleaseta. Chiang Kai-shek waited for and do-what-you-like, which stimu- his command to be carried out. lated the most piratical instincts of There was a very trying period af hysterical and petulant oppositiem
the people, there has been a atrik-
ing change to an order which ap to this decres, but, when: Madame proximates to the puritanism of Chiang Kai-sher, -China's Cromwellian daya
Lady, abided rigorously by the new
To-day in China you will see a beauty and modesty "of "dressing on the part of the Chinese women which is an example to the "en- tire world.
The second and final instal- ment of this article will be Dablished to-day.
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