The Archive · 1927

Race and Nation

When I say that Rad ism is the same as Nationalism, this is appropriate as far as China is concerned, ut not with regard to foreign coun: tries, Now there ave many points of relationship between the word "People" and the word "Nation" which T need not explain but after all, each has its own distineti meaning. We must clearly define wi that we mean by the Nation, and what we by the People. ' How that to that "the people are the nation" is propriate in China but not in foreign countries?

Because the case of China from the time of the Ch'in and the Han Dyna: that of a ingle people developing into a nation, whilst in forei lands it is a case of a people developing into a number of nations.

In one state or country there-are several tribes of people. (Bditorial Not The common origin of all the Chinese people is a tradition; not a sejentife fact] of Chinese migrated—thither voluntarily.) Formerly China and Britain wore fat war, and China being defeated, the people and territory of Hongkong were ceded to Britain.

In time it grew to be the modern Hongkong.

Another ill tration may be seen in the condition of India to-day as created by the British, The exper which she has passed are similar to those of Hongkong.

Note: No parallel nor similarity in this.

India, a great agglomeration ever-hostile peoples and religious groups, were brought together by British conquest and suasion. Hongkong was a bare ok, was made a British colony, but is now populated by nearly a million Chinese who moved into the colony to share prosperity and now hold nearly 80 per cent. of its material assets.)

Wherever the sun shines, it shines on British territory. Of dominions so vast as these, there is not one place that has not been secured by itary force.

Now from ancient times to the present, every nation has been formed by "some tnilitary power, but the development of a people has been different, in every case it has been the result of natural forces, and never in the Toast through violence.

For instance, the [development of the many tens thoitsands of Chinese people Hongkong into a body politic, has been a natural process, and matter what kind of a military force England may use, it can never changed. Therefore we say that 8 communi based on the rule of,

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