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#reach; courses are not so expensive as in England.
standards being lower, a degree which is much covet
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more easily obtained. China also finds their economic
model in U.S.A. because the latter country has mastered the
methods of producing greater wealth than other nations and
China
the poorest country in the world, wishes to be like
America, which is the richest. These factors predisposing
young China towards U.S.A. for educational enlightenment
have been supported by the traditional good will of America
towards the young republic, and by their common political
anatagoniam towards Japan.
Moreover America's high regard for, and generous pro -
vision for higher education in China exactly fits in with
the Chinese attitude towards scholarship. The highly edu-
cated man is an ideal which China has always held in high-
est respect.
A further influence which has determined the present
condition has been the strong sympathy which U.S.A. has
always shewn for young China, this being due to the fact
that America as a nation is by tradition in revolt against
the political, social, ecclésiastical and classical system
of Europe and therefore is naturally draw towards Young
China, which is in revolt against the political social and
classical system of old China.
In an article "America and China" in the London Quarter.
ly Review for April last, Professor Forster expands this
view. "The Chinese Press (he says) is largely controlled
by American returned students and the numerous Y.M.C.A.s
are on American lines, and diffuse their hygiene and general
health principles on which America lays such great stress.
The books read in schools are largely the products of an
American controlled firm of publishers........ The student
looks towards that country for inspiration which has furnish-
ed the clearest proof that the high road to wealth lies
through contempt for convention and tradition...... and is
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