The Changing Chinese: The Conflict of Oriental and Western Cultures in ChinaCentury Company, 1911 - 356 psl. |
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The Changing Chinese– The Conflict of Oriental and Western Culture in China Edward Alsworth Ross Visos knygos peržiūra - 1911 |
The Changing Chinese– The Conflict of Oriental and Western Cultures in China Edward Alsworth Ross Visos knygos peržiūra - 1911 |
The Changing Chinese– The Conflict of Oriental and Western Culture in China Edward Alsworth Ross Visos knygos peržiūra - 1911 |
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203 psl. - For what will they not attempt, if they now come off victorious? "Recollect all the institutions respecting the sex, by which our forefathers restrained their undue freedom, and by which they subjected them to their husbands ; and yet, even with the help of all these restrictions, you can scarcely keep them within bounds.
84 psl. - ... speeding up." Still, it is obvious that those in certain occupations are literally killing themselves by their exertions. The treadmill coolies who propel the stern-wheelers on the West River admittedly shorten their lives. Nearly all the lumber used in China is hand-sawed, and the sawyers are exhausted early. The planers of boards, the marble polishers, the brass filers, the cotton fluffers, the treaders who work the big ricepolishing pestles, are building their coffins.
110 psl. - ... death rate to twenty per thousand. It is reasonable to suppose that similar results will be attained in China as soon as the government enforces laws of sanitation and makes possible the training of native physicians in sufficient numbers to fight successfully against disease. Dr. Ross says further: But to lower the birth rate in equal degree, that, alas, is quite another matter. The factors responsible for the present fecundity of fifty to sixty per thousand — three times that of the American...
47 psl. - In view of what has been shown, the competition of white laborer and yellow is not so simple a test of human worth as some may imagine. Under good conditions the white man can best the yellow man in turning off work. But under bad conditions the yellow man can best the white man because he can better endure spoiled food, poor clothing, foul air, noise, heat, dirt, discomfort and microbes.
96 psl. - ... settled as soon as possible. Before his son is twenty-one he provides him with a wife as a matter of course, and the young couple live with him till the son can fend for himself. There is none of our feeling that a young man should not marry till he can support a family. This wholesome pecuniary check on reproduction seems wholly wanting. The son's marriage is the parents' affair, not his; for they pick the girl and provide the home.
83 psl. - ... sacks, while others run by the bearer, if his sack leaks a little, to catch the particles as they fall. Where sugar is being unloaded, a mob of gleaners swarm upon the lighter the moment the last sack leaves and eagerly scrape from the gangplank and the deck the sugar mixed with dirt that for two hours has been trampled into a muck by the bare feet of two score coolies trotting back and forth across a dusty...
42 psl. - From the testimony it is safe to conclude that at least a part of the observed toughness of the Chinese is attributable to a special race vitality which they have acquired in the course of a longer and severer elimination of the less fit than our North-European ancestors ever experienced in their civilized state.
101 psl. - ... parents of one son are pitied, while the parents of many sons are congratulated. Moreover, the very atmosphere of China is charged with appreciation of progeny. From time immemorial, the things considered most worth while have been posterity, learning, and riches, in the order named. This judgment of a remote epoch when there was room for all survives into a time when the land groans under its burden of population. So a man is still envied for the number of descendants in the male line who will...