Noting would convince these Northerners of the final collapse of their nation and the hopelessness of China's outlook like a Cantonese 2¢- cupation. Foreign conquest means nothing as compared to the loss of North China to the Man-tze.
This feeling is not strong in any Yangtze province. One has to or over the Wu Sheng divide in northern Hupeh to it. Then one realizes from the Hok of the people and a glance at ted modes of life that prejudices that divides them as much ax tradition or guography, and understands why the "Kingdom of Lino" marks off an area' within which one group of sympathies, traditions and. pre-indices, opposes itself stronely. to others south and west of the terroughly covered by the clastic boundaries of the Manchurian kingdom of 2 millennium back.
'The Chinese are not aware that, the physiological features of humankind, 30 important to the anthropologist, coincide almost exactly with' the boundaries of history and prejudice, but bebay? as though they knew it intuitively. In_ neither North nor South China does there exist' what the anthropologist would recognize as a pure racial type, The peoples of the North and South are both racially mixed, but the mixtures are not made from the same clements. Both are alloys, but neither alloy contains te same' fusion of metals. The nature] boundary line seems to start in Tibet with the Kun Lun range and follows the watershed dividing:
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