"The Listener" of Mr. Richard Tyke tu the'
Round ihe presented here ti order" thi {reated by Mr. Pyke. Comm appears "Shanghai is not China,'
It Is on everybody's lips in China; on nearly everybody's in Shanghai.
is true, But Shanghai is not Europe; it is not America, What is it?" This nobody's, and it It is nobody's home-town, sense, It used "tobe everybody's Tom-Tiddler's ground: now it is an asylum of refugees, White Russians with Chinese passports, Chinese poor and profiteers; a base for Japanese imperialists "English money-men, Germans, "Spaniards, Czechs, and Frenchmen. Tt has no homogeneous population of the third and fourth generation, fey, if any, white men stay there unless they had The foreigners have been a. corruption to the Chinese, the Chinese the foreigners; vet all are tied and {ied close by one single bond—money. The commonest, st not the only: Yeason why anyone lives in Shanghai isto mike money to make. minimum ora Taxman a aleky out! That is the other part of Shang possible—to make money. and. ge
hhal's tragedy. Shanghailanders, as Nietzsche said of the human race, are {ike hedgerows: they' cannot bear solitude, yet as soon" 03° they come together they'stab "each other and Withdraw. 1 defy anyone to. love Shanghat" She the Where of Asie.
Meet her face (0 face: land on that proud. waterfront, the Bund, which Ranks the Whangpoo River, Med with {Ms Junks and liners and the forelgners* Linen-of-war; the Bund, with it brazen face, and lis lumplah modern blldings, some more modern' and more impish than others; The Bund-—ime posing but not impressive—for it does hot deceive; like the face of a come Ionplace woman whom time and her own character have begun to mari, {nd who thinks to hide, and "only emphasizes, with her powder and enamel, what everyone can see, Come down the shrieking Nanking Road, with its trams and motorcars and rickshaw, ste bleyeles ana baer ud "telumphant" new "Department Stored filed. with " trailing Chinese fins Angering the silks. 'Turn down 'Thibet Toad, with its teams of sweat= ing carters," and coolles staggering ohmd' their Wheelbarrows, part the Great China Hotel, "the New Asia Hotel, into the bud district with ite Beside their Women owners: with fis funefairs and alleys and' arcades, into the Chinese city.
Which wilt you have: the humdrum the picturesque? The Willow Pattern Temple Tea ¥ouse, in. the Jake, with lls zig-zag bridge to keep away bad sprite Cor bad splits can move only in a straight. line), the {Tomple of Confucius murky with the malto. of Ineense, the wood-carvers, the curios, the ivory-workers, the Jode-and antque™deniers. and the Open booths?
OF the humdrum of everyday; the narrow nen and" sinking ley ways the population relieving them feives here, there and everywhere every" Kind of call that Nature makes; the swarming street markets, where you may buy almost" putrid Tib, oF a lelice oF a cabbage' from the' elds, infested by their Toads of human exeretar the crawling beggar showing lis yaw slump ofan Ampitated unite: or the: whitebeard, ent with the paralyzed companion of his days, lifeless but alive, corded ins back, while he steals forward, quarler-of-a-mile "an hour, irom nowhere to owner But this is not the whole of Shang-hal." Come back past "the Race Corse, free git to the town in per: petuity, Keeping a fine green open Space for sports and racing, inthe Heart of the town. Come" further now: through the "Wightsciub" ict, whose brave attractions can Best' and most fairly "We treated silence, out to the "West End, enhanced by its beautiful Jessticld Park. I
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