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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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