THE REMODELLING OF CHINA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 706, 4 January 1910, Page 6

THE REMODELLING OF CHINA.

-■':The process: of remodelling ■'.through which China is .passing lias,, at some points, ■•'.. the ■ British -of, Fodchow. points, put- in his ' latest jeport,/an -itir fluence on : the course of trade. -. When Japan set- her 'house in .order forty yeare a"O, the transformation took glace suddenly.,.; ■ It; was like a .conjuring 'trick; the' magician waved his' wand and the. ■alterations were effected in the-twinkling of an'eye. , :.The Tycoon : left, by one door nnd the Mikado entered by another, and Japan has been a different country, ever since. In'. ; China no-such, celerity' has characterised ■ the, movement, which _ ' m China.is rather that:of' the hour-hand than of the minute-hand of-awatch. The motion there, is eo nearly invisible to. the senses that the Consul thinks it will be ■some years 'ere 'its'general .outcome is apparent,to the onlooker.-:- For centuries .e "schoolmaster bas pervaded China, but now he:is of another type. Schools, the 6ame Consul states, have sprung iip-every-where,- at: least in the fringe of land bordering the.sea and the■ Great Kiyer which has been leavened by the presence of Here the new knowledge is iriculated,-: and .to' these schools the youth of-China are flocking eagerly and in myriads. There have long been schools of '.Western knowledge .managed- 'by Europeans, missionariee': of various sects: and- natdohalities, -but # what is noteworthy -in the : present- -revival :; of learning is the number-, of schools establishedby the Government ..The officials are clever'enough, when establishing their-schools, to' make them attractive b'y granting them certain' privileges denied to outside educational estok M^uneste,