Cursa, Jaray asp Korea—by J. 0. P.
Bland. Heinemann, London 1921.
Of those who know China right through at first hand There are few to compare with John Otway P. Bland—chanted the 'Morning Post' reviewer. And although it is twelve years since Mr. Bland gave up his home in China, we do not find from his latest book, the fruit of his journey through the Far East at the beginning of last year, that his faculty for piercing to the heart of China's problems has rusted through absence. The book will not be popular with those who, intoxicated by the magic word "democracy" and reckless of its limitations when applied to Oriental peoples, hailed Young China and continue to hail her as the master-builder of a new era, and whose indiscriminating flatteries are not a little to blame for the chaos in which this country finds itself. It may well be that Young China is indeed the ultimate hope of the nation and that there are those who have not yet come upon the political stage who are destined to lead their fellow-countrymen into the land of constitutional milk and honey. But Mr. Bland thinks that the process is likely to be too lon; to be trusted to safely, in view o!
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