China : The pity of it

The Pity of It to analyse the forces at work and their probable results were generally regarded at the time of their publication, coincident with the Washington Conference^ as unjusti fiably pessimistic. Belief in the regenerative influence of Western learning was at that time the dominant factor in...

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Tác giả chính: Bland, J. O. P.
Định dạng: Sách
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Được phát hành: Garden City Doubleday, Doran and company, inc. 1932
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Tóm tắt:The Pity of It to analyse the forces at work and their probable results were generally regarded at the time of their publication, coincident with the Washington Conference^ as unjusti fiably pessimistic. Belief in the regenerative influence of Western learning was at that time the dominant factor in determining the attitude of the Powers, which found expression in the Washington agreements. The policy of patient conciliation^ thereby inaugurated, was based on the assumption that the new class of Chinese official which had come to the front since the Revolution, the Western-educated Intellectuals, was capable of bringing order out of chaos and giving China, within a compara tively brief space of time, a stable and effective govern ment, organised on Western lines* The widespread acceptance of this assumption was due to the on public opinion of Kuomintang propaganda and to the great influence exercised in political circles, in America and England, by the great missionary and educational organisations. The assumption itself, as events have prov