(6) When asked how long would be until China had settled down, he said in substance "We Chinese do not really settle any-
compromise and go on until the next thing, tch up some sort of a (7) Can the foreign Powers help China at the present time? Tem-orarily, yes, permanently, no. In our domestic quarrels and' dynastic changes, Tartars, Mongols and Manchus have stepped in, ruled for a time until we pulled them up or dragged them down to our level, absorbed them and now, we, Chinese re at each other again. It will be worse yet if foreigners meddle in our affairs. We will rain you and you cannot do us any good. We fre a self-determined people for good or ill, regardless of what the world thinks The Cult of Self-Love Tu the course of further conversation, in which others "joined, the matter of anti-foreignism was mentioned. Some one called attention to the fact that at one time the Chinese hated all foreigners alike, then France for the Foochow incident, then America for the Exclusion Act, then Germany for the Shantung JAffair. Japan for the Twenty-One Demands, England for her Everidy Navy insisting on something ther. To-morrow, China will Russia, and the next day some However, Chinese at or home inese abroad can hate Chinese much if not more than Chinese jover hate foreigners. One explana. tion offered and not disputed was, that, self-love is the one thing in which every Chinese is sincere. Whoever interferes with that is an enemy. Really successful Chinese Jscholars, merchants or workmen do mot as a rule hate anybody. The lean, disappointed or distressed can find abundant reasons for hostility. Overmuch success, prominence or power provoke envy, dangerous among people as clever as the Chinese, Paradoxically, the Chinese love to: bbe crowded, but when overcrowded 's0 a8 to imperil the rice-bowl, tion stirs up strife. (Beonot [economic pressure the old-story).
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