Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-02
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Nineteenth Century Review Says China Til
No Unity.


Nineteenth Century Review Says China Has
No Unity.
According to the Nineteenth Century
Review there is no Chinese nation.
The Review says:
1--WE are accustomed to speak of
China and the Chinese people as'if
they were distinct entities. This is an
error at the bottom OF many OF our mis-
takes and COMMISSIONS. We may use the
word China as convenient expression
| to connote certain vast portion CT the
earth g surface but in no more exnot
sense. What figures as China on the
map is number of districts often
separated from each other and from
the center by immense distances, dilfer-
ing widely in climate, resources and
configuration, Inhabited by people of
largely varying races, temperament.
habit, religion and language.
1.-THE Mohammednns, of whom there
are 30, 600. 600, regard the Buddhists as
| irreligious foreigners. The inhabitants
of the central and nor thern provinces,
says Mr.. Keane. scarcely regard those
| of the extreme southeast districts as
| fellow -countrynen at all. A native of
Shanghai was heard to say, There
were seven Cinnamon and two Can
tonese. A man from Tientsin and q
man from Canton can no more talk to
each other than can Frenchman and
Dutohman. Moreover there exists
between them a virulent race hatred.
/ lost the hest Chinese servant / ever
had because, being from the north,
nothing would induce him to accom-
pany me in the south of China, where
his speech would have betrayed him.
Cantonese velly bad man, master, he
said to me; l 90 home. This curious
inter hatred Is conspicuous where
Chinese from differert parts OF China
meet together, us, for example, in
Bangkok, or on the plantations in
Malaga, or the Dutch Indies. Savage
faction fights are of constant occur.
renee. Consequently it is easy to raise
a force Of Chinese in one place to fight
Chinese in another.
ut is because there is no such thing
as China that the military caste o.
the Manchus, comparatively intinitesi
NAL in numbers, have been able t.
! impose their rule upon the enormous
masses of Chinese. Thus it is un~is'
! to predicate anything Of China as |
: whole, or to believe that what suits ON
,, part will necessarily suit another.
lover the heterogeneous and conflict
l
, been any elfectual central control, AM
what control there has been has steadi /
,, grown weaker. The 'Vermil,on pencil
makes a faint mark In the south, Will
in the southwest and extreme nofth
: west it has little but an academic in
: fiuence, and on the Tibetan border
none at all. Respect this.' appendix
to every imperial rescriEt In the Peki
Gazette, is as far from actually as tn
Oyer of the usher with US, or tn
! challenge of the Queens champion q
= the coronation. There is, therefore
= not the slightest possibility of tn
: establishment by Chinese authority G
national army, or navy, or civ
: service. And the corruption which
y y the fatal curse of China, is direct
:, due to the fact that there is not an
= cannot be any central authority
. exercise control over local officials, o.
2 in the absence Of this, to pay then
. The Chinese people, in the language I
. Physics, is mechanical mixture an
i not chemical compound, and Their
:, fore it is irresponsible to the action I
y any single regent, and incapable I
I, exhibiting any common property.