The Archive · 1924

INTERNATIONAL ASPECT

Tendency Shown By Powers To Accord Greattr Equality: Peking Lacking In Statesmen international relations, republican China has experienced progressive tendency on the part of the Great Powers to accord China an equality to which her territory,; polulation and wealth entitle Inboratories replaced the "eight-legged es-Thousands of Chinese have gone abroad to study. The impediment to educational development in the country has always been the Language difficulty. Written Chinese requires a life-time for the appreciation of full scholarship. The ordinary youth, expecting not to be scholar or official, has found himself faced with unparalleled obstacles in attempting to achieve a working knowledge of the language.

Two great intellectual movements followed the unfettering of the Chinese youth after the revolution. The Literary Revolution, whose father, thirties, gave life to the language of the people. novels and poems came to be writ: ten in the Po Hua, the northern spoken language. What Boccaccio did for Italy, what the trouveres and troubadours did for France, what Wycliffe and Chaucer did English, what the Minnesinger for German, the Literary Revolution, is accomplishing for Chinese. Instead of the language being the impediment to the spread of knowledge, ithas become the medium for ter change of ideas and the rousing of intellectual interest.

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