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the Young Chinese who have been educated abroad,
mainly in America, who know that, if ever the
country is to be formed into one Republic, organiz- ation and the application of authority, if necessary
by force, are inevitable, and the Chinese of the
Old School who despise the young politicians and
are convinced that there are no problems connected
with the pacification and unification of China which
can not be settled as they arise in the old time-
honoured Chinese way. This, as Sir Frederick
Whyte has recently said, "is the problem of China", because though the young Chinese may bulk large in
foreign eyes and in the Chinese Press, which, so
far as it exists, they control, the Old School still
wields immense influence over the country as a whole.
And it is just because the young Chinese know how
great the influence of the Old School still is and
how it is ever operating to their prejudice that, as politicians and even in office, they are tempted to be flamboyant in their utterances and extravagant
in their demands. Such an attitude is, they feel,
necessary to save their "face". The Hong Kong University is the only educational institution in
China where the reality of this conflict is
understood and something is even now being done to blend the Old China and the New. If the University has an up-to-date Medical and Engineering School and an Arts Faculty which includes a Department of Commerce, it has also even now an incipient Chinese School in which no less than three "Han-lin", i.e. Academicians (holders of the highest degree of the old regime) are working. It is inconceivable
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