14th January.
Ir an old resident is asked by a new-comer, How is China governed?! he may give several answers, He may describe the theoretical government as it issketched in the books of sinologues, Wells Williams, Mayers, and others, and the new-comer will be foreed to admit that the government of China is one of the most admirably-balanced, and therefore smooth-running pieces of mechanism in the world. A practical man will tell him that China is really self-governed; that the less interference there is from above with the people the more smoothly things go, and that it is the interference of the officials that causes friction in the rotation of the wheels of life. The practical man will say that the officials only exist
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