"Western Influence in China" was. the subject of an interesting address given by Mr. George E. Sokolsky jon Friday last' week before the Literary Departmen: of the American Women's Club, In his introduction Mr. Sokolsky spoke of the deaths of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and of Mr. Roy Anderson, whom he characterized as the greatest American who had fever come to China, Mr. Anderson's influence, said the speaker, expressed itself subtly and ax a fle individual through his life and association with the Chinese hho represented the ideals of his country and impressed them upon the Chinese people more deeply Jthan any great movement could have done, He was born in China and was in close contact with its ife in every direction. Hi many dialects and w most of the leaders Since 1912 he had negotiated any arrangement between China and the United States which had any vestige of success In the course of his address, Mr. [Sokolsky said that as the mind was concrete rather than develop, being of comparatively reent introduction. China was not imitative. It rather imbibed the spirit of any faith that came along fand reproduced it in a form of ite own. In literature also, the speaker thought China showed "no sign of Western influence, but in political life the feeling of democracy, of accepting responsibility for the good jof the whole people was due to Western contact. Socially, life was largely the same as in Western Asia and Southern Europe. Asia had kept her social structure unimpaired longer than had Europe, but the economic life of Asia was passing through the same stages of Europe, with its Guild system, the apprentice, the use of the hand tool; but Asia would not profit by the experience of Europe.
Chinese music, while entirely different from that of Europe, sti had similar instruments. Its had been influenced by Buddhistic tendencies, only its bronzes kept their individuality. Its poetry was peculiarly its own, as the four character verse could not be adapted to Western forms and the "eight-legged essay" of China was indigent ous. The influence of the East on the West, and of the West the East, concluded the speaker, was neigh-hourly, the influence of peoples: living close to each other and meeting each other from time to time, learning from each other how to do Announcement was made that the Library and Literary Departments of the Club would be-merged for the work of the coming year and that a special meeting for the election of officers would be called for JSaturday, March 28, noon, at. the] Clu Rooms, when a tiffin would be served. Members of both Departments were urged to attend, and also any interested in joining the jeombined Department. The next meeting of-the Literary Department ill be held on April 10, when Mr.
'T. Tehou, of the ¥. M..C. A., speak on "The Chinese Re-
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