Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Notes From the History of Soochow
The admixture of the principles just shewn could have only one result - the deadening of initiative and stoical accept ance of present conditions.
The final result being that we have a people largely void of laudable ambition steeped in ignorance, blinded by prejudice, and satisfied with tradition.
The words of a magazine writer con cerning Mexico can be aptly applied to Soochow with only slight variations With violent extremes of naked poverty and incredible riches, of peons and patricians, of general illiteracy and aristocratic culture, a nation (city) that is a disorder of serfs; Croesuses, scholars, bandits, cut-throats, atheists, and saints.
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