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THE CHINA
CHINA CRITIC
Shanghai, Thursday, March 13, 1930
No. 11
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Chinese National Railways
Shanghai - Nanking and Shanghai-Hangchow - Ningpo Lines
From Shanghai to Nanking: 311.04 Kilometers
From Shanghai to Hangchow: 189.57 Kilometers
The Shanghai-Nanking Line extends from Shanghai, one of the greatest seaports in the world, to Nanking, the seat of the National Government of China. Short as it is when compared with the other trunk Lines in China, it serves a rich and densely populated district of preponderant importance, politically, as well as commercially and industrially. The whole Line is dotted over with points of known scenic beauty too numerous to be all mentioned here. Tourists and travellers should utilize the train service of this Line at least to visit Soochow, known as the "Garden City of the Orient", Wusih, the picturesque city on Lake Tai-hu, Chinkiang, the "Gate of the Yangtsze River", and Nanking, a city rich in historic remains with the new grand Mausoleum of modern architecture for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Founder of the Chinese Republic.
The Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Line runs southwestward from Shang hai through a tract of beautiful places. At Lunghwa one will see the famous Pagoda with a long history attached to it; at Sungkiang, the observatory of the French Fathers at the summit of Sha Shan and the grave of General Frederick Ward; at Kashing, the South Lake and the Three Pagodas situated about two miles from the station; and at Hangchow, the present terminus of the Line from Shanghai, the renowned West Lake which called forth highest praise from Marco Polo, with its picturesque surroundings that it has been well called the "Switzerland of China." Tourists! A visit to Hangchow by the comfortable trains of this Line will give you the utmost satisfaction of travel and untold pleasure of sight-seeing.
For further information apply to the Traffic Manager of the two Lines at Shanghai North Station.
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EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS:
On Our Susceptibilities
Unemplo, ment Quation
Contents
Student Revolution in the Philippines Pyjamas and Politica
EDITORIALS:
The Ministry of Finance Report
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American Courts, British Prisons and Extrality
SPECIAL ARTICLES:
My Experience in Reading a Chinese Daily-By Lin Yotang Railway Problems of 1970-By Thom Miyo cax Chao Attitudes Toward China-By Hugh McL. Gilmore
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FACTS AND FIGURES
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CHIEF EVENTS OF THE WEEK
PRESS COMMENTS
BOOK REVIEW:
Dunen: Race and Population Problems
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS:
The Railway Enterprise under the National Government
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On Our Susceptibilities
UR editorial paragraph on Harold Lloyd's picture "Welcome Danger" last week has aroused a great
deal of acrimony among certain sections of our readers. This was not altogether unexpected. But no matter how specifically and how severely we may deal with any single film such as "Welcome Danger," the banning of which we admitted "may be quite legitimate," any rea- sonable and thinking individual would see that there is still a place for some such general principle that wo enunciated concerning our attitude towards unfavorable foreign characterizations of ways and things Chinese. be they founded upon well-established facts or upon sheer ill-will and prejudice. In the presence of such characterizations one of course cannot help being greatly impressed, or even feeling deeply resentful. But to be come easily indignant and perturbed, however righteous- ly, would be stepping beyond the pail of wisdom. We are living in a period of difficult and often painful cul- tural adjustment, and if we are disposed to be easily ruffled, there shall be no end to our susceptibilities, and any feeble stimulus from outside may prove to be quite exacting and exhausting upon our nerves, which will make adjustment all the more difficult and painful. A film is comparatively a simple matter to dispose of. But there are a thousand and one other matters that demand a similar kind of attention. What are we going to do with the scores of books, for instance, that cast indelible slurs upon us and upon our national character, and which command as a rule a more respectable audience than the one before the screen? Take for example, Smith's Chinese Characteristics, or more up-to-date, de Ruffe's Is China Mad? or Legendre's Modern Chinese Civiliza tion, not to mention the innumerable novels which capitalise on supposedly Chinese settings. What can we do with them beyond refusing to read them or taking pains to refute them? Nothing. And indeed nothing more is needed. To refute any palpable untruth that may be said of us already betrays the suggestibility and over-anxiety on our part. But books of this nature often contain observations which are quite penetrating and by no means incorrect. What shall we do then be- sides feeling thankful? Professor Huntington of Yale in one of his more recent books, for instance, took special pains to show that selfish- ness has become through selection deeply imbedded in Our germplasm. A worse and more un- Javorable characterization is perhaps nowhere to be found! Yet we feel sure that any one who has closely followed his arguments cannot but agree with him, and feel grateful that some searching mind from the West has this day located for us the root of one of our most regrettable weaknesses. Any one who is incapable of so feeling has no right to rejoice over such just appreciation and happy characterization of some aspects of our na-
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