. The sea road to the East, Gibraltar to Wei-hai-wei; six lectures. ight of Port Edward, is not like the surroundingterritory under British control. Let us pay it a shortvisit to see what a Chinese provincial town is like. We 49 can go in by the eastern gate and look along the street 50 and visit the temple of Confucius, the great Chineseteacher and philosopher, who was a native of the Shantungprovince. Much of the space within the walls is not builton ; the whole town seems sleepy and decaying, and ourideas as to cleanliness and sanitation are quite unknownto the Chinese. In the British area
. The sea road to the East, Gibraltar to Wei-hai-wei; six lectures. ight of Port Edward, is not like the surroundingterritory under British control. Let us pay it a shortvisit to see what a Chinese provincial town is like. We 49 can go in by the eastern gate and look along the street 50 and visit the temple of Confucius, the great Chineseteacher and philosopher, who was a native of the Shantungprovince. Much of the space within the walls is not builton ; the whole town seems sleepy and decaying, and ourideas as to cleanliness and sanitation are quite unknownto the Chinese. In the British area there are no suchtowns, but hundreds of little agricultural villages scat-tered about in the low-lying parts of the country. TheChinese peasant here is very different from the coolie orshopkeeper of Hongkong and is governed in a very differ-ent way. A Civil Commissioner, assisted by a few Euro-peans and a small force of police, is responsible for thecontrol of over 150,000 Chinese. At one time there was 51 a regiment of soldiers, recruited from the natives ; when. Copyright. Victoria : The Water Front. [See page 103.
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