Drugging a Nation the Story of China And the Opium Curse a Personal Investigat
Drugging a Nation the Story of China And the Opium Curse a Personal Investigat
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This modernizing influence is strongest at the point where the Westerner meets the Chinaman, where the two civilizations come into direct contact. At Shanghai, Tientsin, Hankow, Hongkong, and the other ports there are some thirty to forty thousand Europeans, Englishmen, and Americans. They build splen- did buildings and lay good pavements. They bring with them the best liquors. The life they live gives about as accurate an impression of West- ern civilization of what the Western nations stand f...or as the great majority of the Chinese (a most observing race) are ever likely to receive. We have examined into China's sincerity, now let us examine into the honesty of purpose of the foreign " concessions " and " settlements " which fringe the China Coast. If these commu- nities are representing our civilization out there, IOX 1O2 Drugging a Nation it seems fair to ask whether they are representing it well ; for if they are misrepresenting us, if they are contributing to the sort of international mis- understanding which breeds trouble, we may as well know it.
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This modernizing influence is strongest at the point where the Westerner meets the Chinaman, where the two civilizations come into direct contact. At Shanghai, Tientsin, Hankow, Hongkong, and the other ports there are some thirty to forty thousand Europeans, Englishmen, and Americans. They build splen- did buildings and lay good pavements. They bring with them the best liquors. The life they live gives about as accurate an impression of West- ern civilization of what the Western nations stand f...or as the great majority of the Chinese (a most observing race) are ever likely to receive. We have examined into China's sincerity, now let us examine into the honesty of purpose of the foreign " concessions " and " settlements " which fringe the China Coast. If these commu- nities are representing our civilization out there, IOX 1O2 Drugging a Nation it seems fair to ask whether they are representing it well ; for if they are misrepresenting us, if they are contributing to the sort of international mis- understanding which breeds trouble, we may as well know it.
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