A question often answered by omniscient observer of things Chinese is, Where is it all to end? And to this all-inclusive question there are a myriad of replies, from the very simple and elementary. suggestion that a strong, powerful dictator can rule China even as the Empress Dowager ruled it, to the more astute and academic analysis lof China as a federation of autonomy fous villages. Between these two extremes is a world of political thought and after-dinner conversation. Yet none of it matters very! much, for things political never eric Julius Gesar was assassinated in Rome and now Mussolini holds forth tas a slightly diluted Cassar. Napoleon Hthought that he might conquer Russia and actually marched to Moscow, where now Mr. Trotzl weaves wearisome economic theories and organizes red armies. Where' place, much the same as before, national temperaments interplaying with changing customs und new economic techniques, so that the picture looks slightly different. But scratch the surface and it's the same old Tartar. And that is what is happening in China. When the! Manchus had to call in the Chinese to help them save their throne from the Taipings, they ended their own regime. The centre of gravity] moved from Peking to the Yangtze Valley, the Mediterranean of China, with 'a resultant excitable, irritable people, who think emotionally, which means that they think after. they act. For instance, Yang Sen' now] calls on the British admiral and probably is in his heart of hearts very sorry that he kicked up such' a row at Wanhsien against a people who are doing so much for the development of his province, But} in his part of China, they are always, sorry after they have spoiled the picture. And that has been the history of the Republic these fifteen years. For it is the action without thought that has brought feudalism to all of China and unthinkable misery to the great lands beyond the right bank of the Yangtze.
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