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streets at night time and those of almost any city at Home, the comparison would be all in our favour. Our reputation in this matter in China also stands high: the Hongkong "customs are good", a phrase constantly heard, not from the prostitutes only (when it meers that their freedom is assured and that they are accorded consideration in any trouble) but also from responsible Chinese who speak with a knowledge of the conditions elsewhere, and a realisation of the necessity for keeping up the standard of Chinese family life.

7. A note on the Chinese attitude towards prostitut- ion may be added. The profession is not quite the profession as known in Europe: family parties are still rare (even in private houses) and it is the usual custom for men dining at a Restaurant to be attended by prostitutes sitting behind their chairs: one each; they provide the social and the cheary element perhaps as jestere perhaps as butte. There is a regular scale of charges for this service, which by no means necessarily leads further after dinner: the contract is complete with the dinner. In the practice of their profession, the higher class prostitutes as a rule limit themselves to the attentions of one man: and there is always the possibility of being taken out of the brothel and converted into a perfectly respectable concubine. This is in fact not uncommon and the brothel origin forms no particular obstacle to the concubine being accepted in her new status. The old English attitude towards actresses

(when the stage was of less repute) which was based on its

suspicions was much more severe than is the Chinese

attitude towards the high class prostitute, about whom there

is no secret. And e women will state her profession of

"prostitute" as readily as any other profession; with less

reluctance perhaps than an actress would have claimed the stage a century ago. Matters are of course made easy by the

recognised system of concubinage in China: and prostitutes

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