To the Editor of the "Noon-Ciiwa Datty News"
Sm—Your readers hope that there' may be more of articles, such asthe two recently contributed to your columns, interpreting respec-ively. the Chinese and Foreign viewpoints on Sino-Foreign rel tionships. Supplementing your ed torial policy, they cannot but. ser reduce those walls which too long have separated the two. communities; constituting mutually ex-Glusive citadels of misunderstanding, distaste and distrust. Too Jong have we been tutored in the delict that. the problems of the contact of Chinese and Westerner were insoluble on the basis of a purely human relationship. Ranging from the heights of a profoundly mysterious enigma, the portrayal of the. "sinologue," to. the levels. of sinister viciousness begotten" of pellowinek novelists, the charac.
usation of the Chinese people hi largely been devoid of the reality necessary to its true fathoming by foreigner. 'That reality, in truth, does bear witness. to' vast differences, between East and Wes Dut, for the small trouble of quiry, the logical groundings "of ach may. be discerned, and. least all will the "difference be discovered one as between sinner a saint.
The value of the two articles is in thely honest presentation of that which is required to be satisfied on both sides before a happy contact "fy possible, "But there still remains the problem of, reducing to. logical
quirements of exch, the satisfaction form the, teemingly, peculiar 3 of which by the other is made a condition of his acceptance." There is" room," therefore, for further articles in exposition of the. whys find wherefores of the wtitndes und Actions of each parts which to. the ther seem: thorously logical bourd If not often merely perverse fis only ne the convieion'is borne upon' each side thatthe: differ tees of the other are explicable ferry Shieh can not only be under: Stood, "But" appreciated' and even rathived withy that the found. tong for a enuine accord. are the equtse of your editor icy and in. your nub-leader cember. 11 you. Siry have. ssu teested. any valuable' criteria by Shieh sound judgments by the: one Community of "ite Tellow' may be tenched and. thereby' be Inid™ the Koundations of a. weationship. vital trid snot artificial An expansion ofthe theme would, feel sare, welcomed by Your readers.
Shanghai, Dee, 12,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.