The Archive · 1915

CANTON IN 1914

PROBLEM OF PROVINCIAL — GOVERNMENT — RAILWAY LINES AND DEPENDENCIES

"Canton in 1914" has been chosen as the main title for this review because it represents the reverse side of the picture, the other end of the story sketched the brief history of Peking during the past y It is necessary quire into feelings with people of the south view recent developments in the capital, be-it will be from the south, that opposition to comolidation of Yuan's power?

dealt with this quest we must next attempt some mate of the success with whic problem of provincial Governn has been handled as a whole, That, in turn, necessitates a resume of eff and a glance at the main F's history of Mai magnolia and Tibet.

Cunton corres been notabl stress he has laid upon a abandoned at the time of th volution, Last China New Y for example, was celebrated in wits the austere modernism of Kuomintang made impossible. Door posts and the countless so pans and barges which creak against one another along—the aks of the Pearl River we dosed with red seolls, Di 189 headgear came again into favour. Old temples were once more fragrant with incense and lit by candes: neglected altars bore offerings of flowers, fruit and flesh, These signs indicated an emotional reaction all the more instructive for being accompanied by similar signa in Kuangsi and Kueichow and for ing associated with a revival of nfucianisin, On several eccas: us during the past year Yuan hih-kai has gone out of his way to show that. Confucianism is to re-untin the basis of the country's ethical and religious system and in important respect Canton 1 appear to he very much sympathy.

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