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Permission to use Heritage History documents or images for PAGODA AT LUNG-WA. commercial purposes, or more information about our collection of traditional history resources can be obtained by contacting us at [email protected] Original Copyright 1911 by William Elliot Griffis 2 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 PREFACE interpretation. Every age has had its ruling ideas. China, to the critical student, does not present that picture of monotonous inflexibility which Occidentals—too often proud of their dense Herewith I send forth a little book on China, which I ignorance of this great country and civilization—conjure up trust may help Asian and American people to understand each and apparently delight to dwell on. other better. History shows that the human nature of the Chinese and of ourselves is the same. I have gone below the Though in the course of years digesting the standard surface, letting the Chinese speak for themselves, chiefly and ephemeral works on China and making some acquaintance through their myths, folklore, art, literature, institutions, and with its texts, I have relied mostly for help upon scholars annals. whom I have known personally, at home or in the Orient, such as Messrs. Legge, Williams, Allen, Macgowan, McCartee, My initial interest in China came through traditions of Williamson, Martin, Yung Wing, Hart, Mayers, Dennys, Ross, my grandfather, one of the first, as a merchant navigator, to Holcombe, Wilson, Hirth, Pott, Schlegel, de Groot, Cordier, carry the American flag to Canton, thence bringing home Terrien de la Couperie, and others, or as correspondents,—too pretty curiosities, which, with my father's stories of his many many to name,—besides Chinese, Japanese, and Korean native voyages, provoked a desire to know more of the mighty hermit men of learning, who have kindly answered many questions. nation. I visited many times the great Chinese Museum in my The limits of this little book permit only an outline of native city, Philadelphia, formed by Nathan Dunn, an reference, description, and philosophy of the subject. My American merchant long in China. There were life-sized ambition is to lead my readers to the study of more serious groups of human figures, male and female, picturing all works on China. classes, from emperor and mandarins to cobblers and beggars, representations of shops and crafts, and a varied collection of The West has as much to learn as to teach, to receive as genuine objects of use and beauty, intelligently selected and to give, from the Orient. May this nation with an unexampled brought from the Middle Kingdom. Two Chinese gentlemen, past and the United States of America ever abide in peace and in silk and nankeen dress and bamboo hats, explained things. friendship. Even then I longed to know more of what the Chinese thought W. E .G and felt, than of what they made, ate, bought, or sold. Happily, besides browsing in my father's library and hearing him tell of ITHACA, N. Y. his experiences in Pacific seas, I had the pleasure, later, of living, as pioneer educator, four years in the Far East. I saw the Chinese also in Japan and California, met and talked with scores, possibly hundreds, of men and women long resident in or coming from nearly every part of China, and with scholars who had spent their lives in original research. The witness of a single person, or book, concerning so vast and varied a land as China is worth but little. Yet complex as is its hoary civilization, the few leading principles holding its millions together are very simple. Sympathy is the key to Original Copyright 1911 by William Elliot Griffis 3 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1922 TABLE OF CONTENTS In sending forth the new edition of "China's Story," the author ventures to beg from his countrymen—China's best PRIMEVAL CHINA ......................................................... 5 friends—patience with the oldest of nations. Having lived to ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL CIVILIZATION .............. 8 see very much the same scenes arising from the meeting of Orient and Occident—with the travail and the many sorrows, WHO AND WHENCE? .................................................. 12 arising of necessity during the rejuvenation of Japan and THE TARTARS ............................................................. 16 Korea—the persons, things, and events of the past seventy ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF THINGS .......................... 20 years in "the Middle Kingdom" do not seem so very different THE EVOLUTION OF GOVERNMENT .......................... 25 in any one case from the others. Nor should we despair of THE FEUDAL SYSTEM................................................. 29 China's redemption in time from superstition and CHINA UNIFIED: THE GREAT WALL ......................... 34 disorganization, with the tangles of warring factions, and the old forms of darkness and delusion. THE EMPIRE AND THE NORTHERN BARBARIANS ...... 40 THE RISE AND FALL OF DYNASTIES .......................... 43 One of the trustworthy signs of a new life in these three HE RA OF RINTING AND ITERATURE great nations is that of the growing pains caused by a new T E P L ................. 48 consciousness of brother-hood with all the world. This is seen CHINA'S EXPERIMENT IN SOCIALISM ........................ 53 in a sensitiveness unknown of old. Each people is now jealous CHINA INVADED BY THE MONGOLS ........................... 57 of the praise or blame bestowed on any one of them by WHAT THE MONGOLS DID FOR CHINA ..................... 61 Americans, and all seek this Yankee nation's help and favor. THE MING EMPERORS ............................................... 65 Let us Occidentals give them time for adjustment to new THE MANCHUS AND EUROPEANS ............................... 69 conditions and deliverance from bad precedents and examples. AST AND EST IN ONFLICT Let our first President's hope, expressed in his Farewell E W C ................................... 73 Address, that the blessings which we enjoy may be shared to TAI PINGS AND TRADE WAR ...................................... 76 and by others, be fulfilled. To this end American traditions, THE ARROW AND FLOWERY FLAG ............................ 79 reinforced by the Washington Conference of 1922, point. PEACE UNDER HEAVEN.............................................. 84 W. E .G JAPAN, KOREA, AND DUAL SOVEREIGNTY ................ 87 Pulaski, N. Y. OLD DOGMAS BLOWN TO ATOMS ............................. 91 THE BOXER RIOTS ..................................................... 96 THE ALLIES MAKE WAR ON CHINA ........................ 100 THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR: ITS RESULT .............. 104 AWAKENED CHINA ................................................... 105 CHINA: A REPUBLIC ................................................. 110 Original Copyright 1911 by William Elliot Griffis 4 Distributed by Heritage History 2010 CHAPTER I their humble beginnings ages ago are the luscious peach, the splendid rose, the race-horse, the latest triumphs of science— yes, even our men and women—than are the Chinese PRIMEVAL CHINA gentleman and lady from their savage originals. The world of experience and the outlook of fortieth-century China are vastly China is the oldest living nation in the world. Of all in other than those of her cradle days. In the far-off beginning of the human family, her people have the longest story. To-day things Chinese there were no rice, wheat, oats, silk, cotton, tea, China is like an elderly gentleman, hale and hearty, despite his paper, porcelain, pagodas, priests, temples, idols, letters, years, not liking to change and yet ready for new things. The writing, books, jade, ivory, kites, falconry, cormorant fishing, danger is now that he may go too fast. fire-crackers, or coins with a square hole in the middle. Then A wrinkled old man does not look like the rosy infant the men did not wear queues, nor did the women bind their he once was. Yet "the child is father of the man." In going feet to make them small. There was then no Buddhism, and back four thousand years, we must not expect to find anything very little folklore or legend. There was even a time, farther like the Chinese Empire of to-day. In size, population, manner back, when the people knew nothing of fire, woven clothing, of life, likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, the China of youth houses, medicine, domestic animals, musical instruments, the will not resemble the mighty nation of the twentieth century. institution of marriage, or the measurement of time.
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