Apart from the particular case of returned students there appears to be a great deal of loose talking loose thinking about, anti-foreignism, China. "As with the bandits, Jwhose depredations on Chinese victims are at least a thousand times what they are on foreigners; Jo Chinese official or body of ticians or students, who do something which foreigners dislike, are Jdoing a great deal more which their own countrymen dislike, We ate not for one moment defending. illegal taxation and violations of treaty, far from it. We only sug-sess that they are not to be regard. Jed necessarily as symptoms of special hatred for foreigners. Sur: rise ix often expressed that the Chinese do not profit by the example lof the good government of Shanghai Jand the Concessions in Tientsin, ete., and "go and do like:
their own cities. But first to be remembered that many things which we consider ini pal administra tion the Chinese do not seem care about at all. Furthermore, we cannot help thinking (although boce jwe rather trench upon a point of view stigmatized by a Chinese correspondent yesterday as that the growth success Shanghai has become something of challenge to the Chinese tending make them feel that whatever else they do, they will not do [Shanghai does. Very likely we misrepresenting their way of thought, but at least, as we have described it, it would be a very. human way. "And this at least has.
be recognized, namely, that while ithe Chinese have been' developing, what would be called in the West "class consciousness," foreigners bulk much more largely on the face Jof China than they used to do, 'Careful as they may be to observe neutrality, there they are, and tha privileges' secured to them by treaty (especially when contrast! with the way in which Chinese suffer from their military barons) fare a continual source of fricti irritation far more widely ereeived by the Chinese than was, fence the case. Of course, when we come back to fundamentals, all these phenomena are part and pated the anarchy prevailing throughout, the country but that is precisely Jwhat foreigners as a community are prone to forget. We no more exjeuse the anarchy than we do the breaches of treaty:
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