The Westerner who takes up his residence in China and pretends to any intimacy with the people of the land unconsciously assumes the Chinese burden of local pride. Residents in Anhui ins that the only real Chinese live in the central blocks of the Yangtze valley and that the only genuine mandarin is spoken in Anking. A little further down river, the Nanking-ites by adoption make identical claims for their city and dwell upon the residence of Sung and Ming emperors and their courts as conclusive evidence. Ningpo boasts a population of pure Chinese, in whose veins is no taint of Tartar or aborigine, Mongol or Malay, while very trader and missionary, diplomat and sinologue in Canton stand pedistaled on the archives and traditions of centuries and assumes that the swarming, swampy south is all of China that interests the Occident and that the Cantonese alone are to be considered when writing learned analyses of Chinese modes and manners.
The Real Ohina.
All these enthusiasts, living on the outer fringes of the China of the ancients, steadfastly ignore the
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