The housing conditions and high j The goad of "What will people cost of living react directly on the} say" that restrains and stimulates living conditions of the Chinese; so many in Western countries is workingman, To the foreigner the; nothing to the "They will talk" of most noticeable feature of such; China. Dread of being the subject life is the lack of privacy. With/cf such comment has led to many all the members of one familyja suicide. It lies behind "Face." under one roof or as in the case of! To lose face is to be disgraced. A the workingman. the members of! proud man will not suffer it. He several families, with all the mem-j} Will destroy others, he will plot, or bers of other families on both sides! steal to save it. of the single board partition of the; During the winter of 1922, ex-next houses, and with still more changes of all sort developed in facing them across the narrow Shanghai. Speculation ran wild, street, to say nothing of the conand hundreds of men were ruined. stantly passing stream in the!
A. four-line comment in one of the street, there is absolutely no newspapers about three months seclusion. If a Chinese appears; after the development of the ex-unscrutable and secretive, one must; changes mentioned the number of remember that circumstances suicides of well-dressed mem having made him so. When with a foreig-ne identification marks of any sort ner whom he trusts, he is most on their person, leaping from the naively frank amd confiding. decks of steamers bound for Ning-This lack of seclusion is further! po. These were a few of the aggravated by curiosity. Not mal-speculators who might have been jous nor cruel, but simply a nib-' able to recuperate their lost forbling interest in whatever concerns tunes, but who could never tolerate anyone else, their loss of face, nor the know-It is no wonder then that the ledge that '"'They" were talking. Chinese of high or low degree is a Unless therefore one deliberately master of double meaning and wishes to attract attention as dissembling. Foreigners comment in the case of a quarrel, he will on the seeming inertness of the! people in open homes and shops. give no indication of the thoughts or emotions flowing behind They do not realize that a single! his eyes. -But he will keep movement that would indicate a keen eye out for an unusual enthusiasm, interest, wrath, or sormovement, or sound that suggest row would bring in upon them not something of interest or novelty to only the neighbours who feel they be seen elsewhere. have first rights to be in. on any-} thing unusual, but complete
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