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NATIONAL SELF-CONCEIT.

VIEWS OF A DISTINGUISHED CHINESE.

THE A.D.C. SEASON.

TO-MORROW. NIGHT AT THE THEATRE ROYAL

was a real revolution. There was down fall of dynasty, and there was a super- ficial change in the form of government, but there was no fundamental change in the ideas and thoughts of the people, which, and which alone, can be called a revolution. As a great nation with glorious past, China has been too self- conceited to come to a real understand-

What promises to be a very successful ing of the modern world and its new week of Amateur Theatricals opens to civilisation. We hare never sincerely and morrow night at 9.30 o'clock, and con- whole-heartedly been willing to recognise

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the merits and spirit of civilisation, and tinues every night during the following consequently have never earnestly pre-week, except Wednesday." pared our young men to undertake this The final rehearsals show that not only Kreat tas We are

now far behind Japan, simply because we have been fifty their respective parties-that is to be in everyone concerned word-perfect in years behind Japan in coming to a will expected of a company with such a de agness to accept the modern civilisation. I servedly high reputation to keep up-but And it is fifty years' which has made a fit is also obvious that the various char- world of difference.

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LONDON, October 16th. The annual dinner given by Chinese students in England to celebrate the anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Republie was held a few nights

"For instance, when China first sent ago at the Hotel Cecil. The best speech was made by Dr. Hu Shih, Professor of students abroad, more than half a cen; Literature at the National University of tury ago, she sent, not well-prepared

Ia a Medley such as this, there is Peking, who was recently invited to join leaders, bat young boys of fifteen or plenty of opportunity for a display of the British Boxer Indemnity Commission, under, with the view that they might every sort of talent, and whether the and is now in London for certain con- easily learn the language and return to

play is a farce or a subtle drama, it sultations with the Foreign Office. Dr. serve as mere interpreters to the great seems that the part to be depicted is in Hu Shih spoke with great earnestness and mandarins and officials. And when later the hands of just the right person, who frankness. The Chinese Revolution, he young men were sent abroad in larger presents the character in such a way that said, had failed in its aim by establishing numbers, they were sent, not to be train is hard to see how else it could be been a revolution at all: The changes acquire a technical education-to become It was a revelation at the dress rehear i had wrought were superficial. There civil or mechanical engineer, a minersal to see how much had been made of. Ir

or an electrician, a chemist or phy-even the slightest part, and one realises bad been no real change of outlook, no casting off of that national self-conceit sician. Very few took up law, and aimest

once again what a very high standard of none studied philosophy and literature seting there is in this town. Hongkong which had always prevented. China from understanding the modern world.

Even as inte as 1910, the year before the is indeed very fortunate to have always Revolution, when. I was "leaving for Developing this idea, he stated that America with a group of seventy students, gifted amateurs, and it only remains for at command such a auccession of highly China bad gone to the West simply to learn a few mechanical devices; she had

I was strongly advised by all my friends

the people here to show their apprecia to prepare myself to be a railway or never made any effort to study Western

tion of this fact by giving their whole- mining engineer. Thus, even on the evehearted support during the A.D.C. tep- philosophy and learn from it whatever of the Revolution, China had no idea that son. In return for the price of a ticket lessons might be of value to her in accommodating herself to the demands of anything more than technical knowledge, oughly enjoyable evening will be spent.

the modern Western world could offer everyone can rest assured that a thor- modern civilisation. If China WZB τον

and that we ought to train our young. become a great united nation again her

It but remains to add that there wil mes and women in the West to become be no charge for the programme; thus first and imperative need was for leaders future leaders of new thought and of the A.D.C. continues the good custom who would not be military opportunists, new civilisation. In our national self- inaugurated by their present Honorary Dat deeply cultured men, trained to inter-conceit we excelled in everything. That Secretary.

faithfully between China and "the

was the mental state as late as 1910. Such leaders of the future-

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scrupulous opportunists. The situation on the first page of this volume Car- couraging the growth of a new, living to-day is that men fitted only to become dinal Newman wrote a line from Homer, spirit in art and letters, he is known as drill-masters are now governing vast pro. which ho freely translated as follows:- the Father of the Chinese Renaissance.vinces, and petty politicians trained only

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REVOLUTION A FAILURE.

WHAT CHINA NEEDS.

FULL TEXT OF DR. HU SHIH'S SPEECH.

Dr. Hu Shih'a speech, a reference to which is made by our London correspon- dent above, arpused considerable atten- tion in England.

It was delivered at the Hotel Cecil on October 9th at the sanual dinner of the Central Union of Chinese Students in Great Britain and Ireland. Dr. Eu Shih proposed the tonst of the evening-the bealth of the members of the Union.

WHAT CHINA NEEDS.

"This struck me much when I first read proposed to the Students' Club at Peking that they should adopt it as their motto, but modesty or lack of courage prevented it,

Fellow students, may I propose this line, of Homeric poetry as my toast to the Central Union of Chinese Students 1 May I hope that, when you return to China, you may be ready to declare to the nation and the world:-

You shall see the difference now that we are back again ́?

"This, then, is the real tragedy of China. The Revolution has been. 1 failure, because, I repeat, there was no revolution in the sense that the French or the Russian Revolution was a revolu tion. There was lacking a new revolution more fundamental than a mere overthrow

I now invite all the guesta to join me of a dynasty or a, change in the form of in proposing a toast to the Central Union, government. We need a new revolution, wishing it prosperity and progress, and spiritual revolution. It is such a new wishing that some day some of our hosts revolution which China needs to-day. We and hostesses may become the leaders in need a new recognition of the spiritual the New Revolution, in the great task of value and possibilities of the modern transforming China to a different nation, civilisation. We need a new appreciation & great modern nation worthy of her sons of money-making, but as the only effec

and daughters." (Applause.) of material progress, not only as a means tive means of emancipating human energy from the pitiful struggle for bare subsist. We need a new conception of govern ence and of uplifting it for higher values.

THE NEW NATIONAL SPIRIT. ment, not as a means to personal power,

"The real Red colour in China to-day but as an organised instrument for bring is Nationalism, not Russiapism," said

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REVOLUTION-A FAILURE..

see new leaders in sight. Shall we wait generation has failed, and we do not for some Dictator to descend upon us, or be content with imitating that pathetic emperor of a thousand years ago, who every night burned incense and prayed that Heaven might tend down some great upon ourselves to prepare and undertaku man to save China Or aball we call the leadership of the nation?

A HOMERIO MOTTO. "I am not called upon to refute these century there was a religious roovement "During the second quarter of the last views, with neither of which I can agree in this country, known as the Oxford With your permission; I shall state my Movement. The leaders of the movement own answer. My answer is a simple oneNewman, Keble, and. Froude wrote a The Chinese Revolution has failed to achieve its purpose because there never (Continued on next Column.)

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