This writer knowing Jife in America as also in China, is, he believes, justified in expressing the business, in the cotton-broking, tea, and silk trades, but after about two years of this he decided to enter the Consular Service, He studied Chinese under Dr, J. Summers in George-yard, 'Tone tsin, Taku, Hankow, Kiukiang, and Fucchau. He obtained a scholare ship at the Middle Temple, and studied there from 1875 to.' 187%, Afterwards he served at Pagoda, Island and other places, and rose to be a first class assistant in 1880, He was called to the Bar in 1882, and was acting Vice-Consul Chemulpo, Korea, and then Acting. Consul-General in Korea in 1886 and 1887. Service at Pagoda Island again followed, and he was pros moted to be Consul at Kiur.cchow in April, 1891, From March. 1992, to June, 1893, he was employed in Burma as adviser to the Indian Government on Chinese affairs, and he relied on a pension in Septeme her, 1895
Professor Parker wrote a number of works on Chinese life and vee ligion. "His "Comparative Chinese Family Law" appeared in 1879, "The Opium War" in 1887, "China's Relations with Foreigners? in 1888, "Up the Yangtsze" "in 1802, "Burma" in 1893, and "A Thousand Years of the Tartars" in 1895. (en-Iayged edition, 1925). In 1896.vas appointed Reader in Chinese University College, Liverpool, now Liverpool University, and in in which he' published of which an enlarged edition appeared in 1917, he was appointed Professor of Chinese in Owens College, Manchester, now Manchester University. He' public shed "John Chinaman" also in 1901, "China, Past and Present" in 1903) "China and Religion" "in 1905, "Ancient China Simplified" in 1908, and "Studies in Chinese Religion" in 1910, above criticism, But it is not shot "smart Alec." What I want to get the average American to see that to judge Chinese men and things from standards other than Chinese is to do a grave injustice to the Chinese people, In America people think quickly, act quickly, and life today is peculiarly. coherent with or a natural out growth of yesterday. If you look close enough, you can almost seo things grow. Not so in China, Time has a different value, You cannot expect things to evolve as rapidly among the _slow-think ing superstitious Chinese as you can among the alert, scicntitically and' mechanically minded Americans, Much as one would wish to do so, you cannot make adolescents out of infants, experienced men out of) me experienced boys—you are dependent upon slow and gradual growth, Similarly, with "China, America, though yet young and in many ways inexperienced, possesses enough concerted national force to Jovereome apparently formidable obstacles, and in her strength she i not able' to understand how weale others are, and particularly how weak China is, Every sincere observer of Chines ife and serious student of Chinese story cannot fail to discover deep-rooted moral force in China's ancient civilization, It is this deep. seated moral force which must be used as the foundation, and it is precisely this which many foreign ers—missionaries as well og others'—are slowly destroying by endeavouring to substitute something entirely foreign to the Chinese mind to take it place. In this way, though probably acting from high motives, they are doing China much more harm than good.
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