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CHINA AND THE WEST, MR. ARCHIBALD ROSE ON CHINA'S PROBLEMS.

this matter..

RRITISH RELATIONS WITH CHINA.

Lin China if the West had experienced its non-morial advantages of a generous economic revolution; but if the communi standard of life as any, people in the cution of its experiences, to China bad world.

One word more. The impact of new been undertaken exclusively by Chinese

have

THE POLITICAL POSITION IN

CHINA.

Just for Once

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most

There is a great deal of truth in this The American man has been

are concerned..

sons. The daughter, in most cases in American life, is not the idol of the maternal eye. The daughter becomes a dapper without serious rebuke from her mother.

THE AMERICAN HUSBAND. DOES HE NEGLECT HIS WIFE? we must uume that communication forces in China has come not from. Eng QUESTION DEBATED BY WOMEN

IN NEW YORK. Mr. Archibald Rose, C., E., addressed through some channel was inevitable inland alone, but from the West-from Europe and America and through Japan..

American woinen. are being charged the conference of the National Union of an awakened world.

If every Englishman and every British Students at Cambridge on the problem THE CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS Arm warn to leave China to-morrow the with neglecting their husbands because of Ching and pointed out that the dis ruption in the country was the result of. The special problem of race contract main elements of the China problem of a greater interest in children. The would not, then have arisen. But that would remain as they are to-day for the charge is made by the women themselves, a clash of two civilisations.

I welcome this opportunity of talking Yaster problem-the changing technique problem is not one of race, but of the and has reached such a stage of dis A spirited debate. by the to you about the Chiun of to-day, he said would have remained. The same clash contact of cultures and ways of life, in cussion as to form the subject for public members of the Women's Legislative to the students, for you are young, and would have been manifested between the regard to which there is a fundamental argument,

League of New York was followed by a there is a young spirit in the old body younger and the older generation. The waity in all Western civilisation.

tie Tote concerning, the merits of the of China which you may learn to under-ate social problems, arising from the

would CRUSES,

emerged.

arguments put forth. Then, in true

manner. stand rather better than some of us who me

voted the women have spent uur lives in the China of yes China would have had to face the sam terday. I do not believe that China has economic oppositions of interest, the I shall not attempt to-day to give you feminina

It same administrative readjustments. the any detailed account of the present poli again, this time to give expression to changed in any fundnumental sense.

Same resthetic question, whether the tical position in China. Strange name their own personal convictions, and by a

another with majority decision agreed that remains the greatest agricultural country

inmemorial arts and culture of a people) and events follow one

But the women do not neglect their husbanda for in the world, the home of a tine, sturdy

can survive the disruptive power of new kaleidoscopic bewilderment.

their children, seck, of a tough social fabric, and ofan

mechanical invention. are. after all, only phases in a gyen

Nevertheless, this charge is in the air, Aglong divilisation rooted in the very forces. based on life of the Chinese race. "But there is a These problems would have arisen, in process of change, a saat harian and cut-

China, hecause they have arisen in the tural movement. The Chinese are trying so to speak, says the New York corres

pondent of the Evening Standard, and new spirit in the air, a restlessness-per-

West. because they are problems not of to build up a new form of government,

there is abundant evidence to support haps a Divine discontent. China has re

race but of those vast, forces liberated by new punchinery of administration, * uew presented for many centuries a civilisa-

not 80. easy to find. Many say the tion rather than a nation in the modern invention and discovery and still beyond system of communications, and a new the accusation: The reason, however, is kenae, and its people may well be proud the control of human foresight. We are standard of life. They have found the For the fact. But there is something in told that science has no boundaries and task one of enormous difficulty, for they American man is at fault because he our modern outlook, emanating perhaps we can hardly dispute the truth of that are dealing with a vast country and a does not show sufficient interest in his не do not always very numerous people. The struggle bas wife, and thus drives her to her children The from the material developments of our contention. But modern life, which inevitably creates an realise that the advance of applied been marked by five years of incessant for comfort and companionship. artive political consciousness, and makes science is both constructive and disrup civil strife, involving untold losses to the intense materialign of the American people introspective and sensitive about tive in its effect, Scientific advance veces people and to the national assets to man, his almost exclusive concentration themselves and their relation to otherarily involves hurried social readjust China. They will work out their own on his business affairs makes home life The Chinese are of all peoples the least ment, violent administrative changes, in-salvation in their own good time. A for him scarcely more than an incident self-conscious, but even they have not tellectual and moral ferment, and a per- certain nucleus of credit and stability in his life. He must find some place to escaped the self-consciousness of nation- Petual clash between the old and the new and security has been maintained in the rest between one day's office hours and" alism, It is causing them a great deal At the moment the West is blamed for international administrations of the the next; and so he maintains a home. of present suffering and trouble; but they China's troubles, hecause the West has Treaty Parts and the Customs Service, could hardly have escaped it now that chanced to introduce this new knowledge during a period which would otherwise charge. they are in close contact with the outer The onus is laid on the messenger; but have been one of general chaos. "But it drifting away from his wife for many world. And it would not have affected it is the merge which has mattered. would not be wise for the West to try and years, and the culminating point has them so widely and so deeply unless it The West is a victim of the disruptive impose its will. Nor would it be just now been reached. This is not, to say met some great need. They have been forces equally with the East. East and or neighbourly to refuse help if it should that he drifts towards other women any be sought by China from those of us who more than do, men in general in the West, are, in fact, faced by a common through a long period of stagnation, po- litical, social and material. Their life and Problem-the new hopes, the new fears, have already bought our experience in world. His increasing lack of interest the new wealth and the new discontents, the first stages of this new era of inven in his wife is due predominantly to his civilisation had become static and conven- tionalised, and that was not a natural of forces that have been freely liberated tion that has so transformed the world, specialisation in money-making. He uses The Chinese have made up their mind up so much energy in materialistic effort to play an active part in the world of it, the office that his mind is largely a or a healthy state for an essentially vital but which are still but loosely controlled. people. "And now, almost in the twink The inevitable difficulties of transition in ling of an eye, a process of change and China may have been intensified by the to-day, in its politics, its commerce, and blank to other attractions, and a his development and growth has begun. We fact that the communication of these new its industry, in its League of Nations, mate at home has only a casual, bold on. and they are asking the same question forces was conducted through people of its education and its life, and they have him, in so far as her feminine power is whither will it lead them? I do not in- father nationalities, But it is well to be a capacity and a personality which will concerned.

The American woman, despite her out tend to try and answer that question, for en nue's guard when the whole issue is most certainly attract attention and I believe that Mr. Chen hopes to give described-and not always by disinterest secure a fair proportion of leadership in ward coldness and assumed desire for Fou some indication of the direction of parties as the result of a grasping many of the world's activities. Chinese freedom, is discontented, and growing influence in the world will count for hard in her character, because of the loss These new forces, and he far more like and aggressive Western Capitalion. ly to give you a satisfactory answer, for There are three things which I should great deal in the next generation. To of her power over her man. Her esthe he will speak from the Chinese point of like to say in this connection. The first get in tune with that influence, with the ticism must find on outlet, however, and view-the only one worth considering in is that the desire for gain was not born thought and aspirations and activities of it is taking the form of extravagant care into the world with modern mechanical China will be one of the great adven showered on her children. Especially is Favention. The second, that the desire tures of a world which is embarking on this true where spos

a new form of civilisation. full of pro-American daughters, are allowed to go for gain is not the monopoly of any single race or continent. The third, and mise, full of hone, full of problems, and on their way far more than are American most important, that it is easy to at with still uncharted course. tribute to others & clearness of vision and consistency of purpose in a limitless de- sire for gain-whatever it may cost in suffering to others. One to too apt to forget that those others stand to sufer from. much more common binar limita- tiona-irom short-sightedness, ignorance and bewilderment. These are limitations to which all men are prone and from which capitalists escape no more than other people. You will all agree with me in wishing that capitalists should realise fully their responsibilities to labour. whether that labour be of the East or the West. And you will be glad to know that your fellow countrymen in China have made a stand for a fuller knowledge and understanding between capital and Iabour. And that they have worked con- sistently to make their faeteries; and every industrial activity in which they participate, factors in the constructive as distinct from the disruptive-forces of the new civilisation. Capitalism, wisely They were only too glad that the newly directed, has already done much to aid arrived foreign communities, should be the constructive side of the new forven isolated in a few little treaty ports along in China, and to direct them, into chan- nels of helpfulness. Its opportunities in the coast and on the banks of the great this direction are almost limitless. Rail- Yangtze River. And that they should lead their own lives under their ownays and quick transport; time and CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO., LTD

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It may help you, however, if 1 just own relations with Louch uper our China, and especially with the China of this new era. The British have been in fairly close contact with the Chinese for several centuries, and I have never met an Englishman who has known the Chinese well who has not conceived for them a great regard, and a great respret They have a kindliness and courtesy, common sense and a sense of humour, 4 high standard of honour in business. and an appreciation of friendship which and make then good companions good colleagues. So much for personal relations. Our political relations have not been quite so simple. With their long tradition of exclusiveness the Chinese were disposed to look askance at the advent of foreign traders, who brought new methods, new ideas, and very soon-the bustling effectiveness of a civilisation that had been a good den!

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