Twilight in the Forbidden City by Reginald F. Johnston
Author:Reginald F. Johnston
Language: zho
Format: azw3
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
Published: 2008-09-30T16:00:00+00:00
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[1] See above, chapter vii.
[2] For a good illustration of how a Manchu prince's property could be mismanaged by his unfaithful steward, see Richard Wilhelm's The Soul of China (New York), p. 189. See also Owen Lattimore, Manchuria, Cradle of Conflict (New York: 1932), p. 261. Cf. also p. 180, where Lattimore says: "It is a matter of common knowledge that at the present time a great deal of land in Manchuria is held by the descendants of slaves and stewards who usurped in time the estates of their proprietors."
[3] See pp. 69—70.
[4] Things Chinese, by Dyer Ball and Werner (Shanghai: 1925), p. 1.
[5] A Glossary of Reference (Shanghai: 1900), p. 1.
[6] It may be that the disdain for what were regarded as the sordid details of finance was partly the result of a bad interpretation of a passage near the end of the Confucian "Higher Learning," part of which is translated by Legge as follows: "When he who presides over a State or a family makes his revenues his chief business, he must be under the influence of some small, mean man," etc. (See Legge's Chinese Classics, vol. i., p. 380). Cf. also the first chapter of Mencius, with its disapprobation of mere "profit."
[7] Montaigne's Essays (Oxford ed.: 1927), vol. ii., p. 461.
[8] See chapter vii., p. 91.
[9] In this respect, Shao Ying flagrantly disobeyed one of the teachings of Confucius, which was to the effect that "the gentleman is slow to speak, quick to act." See my Bristol Lectures on Confucianism and Modern China (Gollancz: 1934).
[10] Eliza R. Scidmore in China, the Long-Lived Empire (London: 1900), p. 112.
[11] Op. cit., p. 337.
[12] From "The Higher Learning" (Ta Hsüeh), chapter ix.
[13] See H. St. J. B. Philby, Harun Al Rashid (Peter Davies: 1933).
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