The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-08

Gmpses of the struggle Of China towards higher civilization
and closer understanding with the outside world which has
stubbon imprisoned Itself against for centuries were given at
meeting of the Bow Wong Society Saturday evening their
hall Kuui street. when young Chinese girl Wal Chin, OF
the merchant class spoke English upon public platform and
urging the necessity of changes for Chinese women cited the
Chinese in China of the mandarin classes
Chinese of the Chinese who had broken through the of
four thousand years and champog the Of womans
emancipation from the desposm Of masculine China which has
made Of its womannd sometimes pet but always chate
persona graa without soul and the meest modcum of in
teligence special rights
The first speaker evening address crowded hall
the girl He is H. Mong the of Fort
merchant and has but lately returned from where
he has been studying Two years spent the Army
Academy Six hundred Chinese estimated be in Jap
studying contemporary education with their closest rivals
Forty of these young Chnamen of merchants and officials
will complete their this and return to China to take
places, many of them in government circles.
Ho Mong interpreted for his sister, Wal Chin, who spoke in
English breaking down the barriers of caste and speaking in v
and picturesque terms OF the enrammeed lives OF her SIS
in the Fowery Kingdom. The Reformers, the Bow
Wongs would be called they American society listened
attenve and seemed generally to coincide with the speaker
The occasion showed plainly the adapaby OF the Chinese to
thoroughly inherent obedience customs born with
the nation ITSELF and to discuss calmly ntegenty and avoraby
reforms which mooed two decades ago. would have set the
whole of China agape and the of such dangerous
ideas to the headsman a madhouse.
Wal Chin spoke of the lives of Chinese with
prerogave with communication with the outer world
binding she strongly condemned and announced that the time
had for the emancipation OF the OF China She
spoke hopefully of present prospects and cited authority for
her sangune conviction the following
Chong Chock kWan young girl OF the higher mandarin
class in Canton She brought entirely mandarin fam
lily and under the influence of outside teaching At the
of she graduated Canton DOCTOR acquiring
the title of NJ d. its Chinese equivalent During the Boxer
troubles she personally conducted hospital and also
of school, At she London studying medicine
and adding the last results of European the mysteries
of Chinese medicinal lore altogether despCabe themselves
when remembered that Chinese used anehetCs for
centuries before they introduced Partisan hospital Miss
Kwan is tn first Chinese girl foreign country for the
, purpose of study.
= Too Ching Chez also girl of Canton and member of
official family has spoken publicly and argued privately with
has created little feeling which, while all favorable has
ventilated the subject and made the first step towards
pishing something Of the desired end
Lii Kom KOm another Chinese girl mbued with the spirit
of modern thought and progress the Others Century upon
century of does have dwarfed the neecs
capacity for accomplishment of the Chinese woman L
Kom Kom is full of determination aid her any
former of the younger world
Some months ago she Honolulu and lives in
California where she is completing her studies and pushing the
of Chinese amongst the Chinese resident in Cao
In this she has been successful having interested
wealthy Chinese families whose already acquainted with
the higher and broader sphere the white women
ay her talks and discuss the matter something be day
accomplished
Miss Kom Kom claims that the foreign devil sentiment
heart deep with the Chinese it is merely veil of mystery
thrown the outside world for the selfish purposes
cials who foreign methods likely diminish
power and who trade the ignorance of many establish
bugaboo which represents the white barbarian capable
of committing far greater enome than credited to
the cruelest torurers of interior China.