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GOOD FOR HIM A GOOD FOR YOU

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SEVENTEER HUNDRED & FORTY TWES

WHITBREAD'S

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BREWED IN ENGLAND

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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 20, 1988.

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The view bears repetition and emphasis because there is no evidence that it has come to the attention of the Japanese.

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Bargaining In Turkey

It

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of bargaining in Turkish shops All communications intended for No doubt this innovation will is soon to be abolished by law. publication should be addressed to save a great deal of time to all the Editor, and be accompanied by concerned; but there will be the Writer's Name and Address, many, tourists especially, who not necessarily for insertion but as will regret it. For bargaining is a guarantee of good faith.

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A VIEW THAT BEARS

REPETITION

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the art of shopping, and "ars longa, vita brevis" is. not; a con- sideration that has ever deterred the artist. He cannot, in this case, be expected to find compen sation for the exercise of his forensic ability, histrionic talent, and psychological insight, in the comparatively sordid satisfac- tion of getting his money's worth |quickly." To "cut the cackle and get to the 'osses" is to tempt him to look even a gift horse in the mouth.

The Occident has sadly mis- used the word "bargain." It has affair that

A precedent for almost every-degenerated into an thing can be found in Chinese is either a sacrifice on the one history. Sometimes these pre- part, or a temporary illusion on cedents seem obscure, while in the other, whereas the essence of other compendiums

the true bargain is the mutual clearly related to the present-day and lasting conviction of both scene. C. P. Fitzgerald, in his parties that they have come out China: A Short Cultural His- of it with advantage. Is it not tory just published in New York, traditional to shake hands on a performs a service which stands bargain, and significant that midway between both extremes. there are no warm handclasps

For the exigencies of

across the bargain counters! Do pression in this volume, which is we not talk of the "rush" at a a statement that limited to 600-odd pages, have bargain sale prompted Mr. Fitzgerald to should be as incongruous as reduce many movements and de-speaking of the rush on a cricket

field. velopments in Chinese life to

As far as Turkey is concerned, succinct sentences. Thus they

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stand out clearly for those who however, all that is needed to desire simplification. But he satisfy those who hanker after makes no attempt to interpret the old ritual is for the Govern their significance beyond their ment to adapt one more western direct relation to the Middle institution to its ends, and licence a few bargain basements Kingdom of the past.

in their bazaars.

Nor does Mr. Fitzgerald pre- tend his conclusions are new. He has aimed, rather, at an integra- Jubilee tion of Chinese life, history and culture in a manner not precisely The theatre, which has often duplicated in the wealth of represented age as decrepit and material on the Far East. De-worn out, is now proving, in the spite the problems of selection, most practical manner possible, which in so broad a field can al-that advancing years need not ways evoke controversy, the au- mean any diminishing either in thor has given adequate weight vigour or ability. This fact is to the early history of the Chin- brought home by the prepara- ese. And the philosophies, the tions that are being made to cele- art, and the learning of succes-brate appropriately the fiftieth sive period appear not as separ-anniversary of the first appear-

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but as integral parts of its de-Vanbrugh." velopment.

Miss Vanbrugh has played a Of the historical trends which great part in the history of the are subjected to Mr. Fitzgerald's modern English stage. She has scholarly condensation, two may, taken leading roles in the plays perhaps, be selected for readers of most eminent dramatists from of current news. One is the Barrie and Pinero to Mr. Noel answer to the notion that the au- Coward. And she is as bright thoritarian state is something and popular a star as she has new. For the post-Confucian ever been during the last half- school of the Legists rejected all century.

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the systems of the past, declaring Yet, striking as is Miss Van- that times-had--changed, "and brugh's achievement, it is by no sought a new principle of au- means unique. Her sister Violet thority, not in morality, but in celebrated also her own stage the sovereign power of a re- jubilee a year ago. A little organised state. Truly the par- earlier Miss Marie Tempest, who allel to-day is not difficult to find. is now. the chief player at one of A second "precedent" from Mr. London's most famous theatres, Fitzgerald's pages concerns one the Haymarket, marked the con of the most widely held views on clusion of her fiftieth year on the Chinese civilisation. He writes: stage while Sir Seymour Hicks "No territory once fully sub-did, likewise a few months ago jected to this: [Chinese] civilisa-with one of the longest runs of tion has ever been wholly lost, his extremely successful, career. and no territory permanently in- All these players are among corporated in the Chinese area London's favourite entertainers has withstood the penetration of of to-day, entering their second Chinese culture. The process of half-century of service with un- absorption has sometimes been abated ability and charm.