The following extract is publish-Jed because it itustrates the reaction fof a. dialect-speaking foreigner to a. Mandarin-speaking section of Where the dialects are spoken, als only the children sod uneducated spee Ing Mandarin is as surprising as in the west it would be 2 labourer quoting Latin or Greek. The writer quoted below has lived Chekiang for " number of years and is writing from the Kahsing section laying out—the death rate has more The people in this section are
fan' overtaken the birth rate, 'Their places are being filled by} people from many different provines, many of them from north of the' river which isa general term for north of the Yangtze, embrace ing, N. Kiangsu and. Stantong.
Sophe people that come in do not like the good. brick, tile-covered houses which they could. move into {for almost nothing. The inal fants have died in them and they {fear the tame result to any one who might occupy them, so they become:
juatters"" and live in -straw huts. Itwe morth-of-the-river folk buy Up these deserted houses, sell the for what they can get, make raits lof the timbers wud float them orth to al Thers are so mant have learned. to understand "32 different people in this section that
different dialects.
"OF these Sutsien, N. Ku,, is by tar the best. This language could to-well be adopted the one for all fof China. It is quite like Pekingese, Te was a pleasure in 1912 when I did Zamine work in Sutsien coun y to hear the uneducated country otk speaking 'a language that should be taken as a model for Among these simple folk T also saw some of the finest specifmens of manhood I have ever seen fand that among people who. were just. one jump. ahead of actual starvation:
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