Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . rather than any common racial element. For the abori-ginal elements have been diversely modified by mixture with Bur-mese, Malays, Tartars, Mongols, Tibetans and other still half-savage hill tribes, which have no collective ethical thousands of years the agricultural populations of diverse ori-gin, settled in the Hoang-ho and Yang-tze-kiang basi
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . rather than any common racial element. For the abori-ginal elements have been diversely modified by mixture with Bur-mese, Malays, Tartars, Mongols, Tibetans and other still half-savage hill tribes, which have no collective ethical thousands of years the agricultural populations of diverse ori-gin, settled in the Hoang-ho and Yang-tze-kiang basins, have hadthe same historic destinies, speak dialects of the same languageand have become one nation. Many differences between the primitive stocks have beeneffaced, but the differences are still conspicuous in some of thesouthern provinces, notably in Fokien and Kwang-tung, the na-tives of which seem to form two races not yet thoroughly whence came that primitive stock, which, blending with diverseelements, resulted in the great Chinese nation ? The people for- EARLY DAWN OF CHINESE HISTORY. lsi ffierly called themselves the l Hundred Families and pointed tothe northwest beyond the Hoang-ho as the region whence the. TYPES OF CHINESE WOMEN. migrating groups descended to the fluvial plains, where they eitherexpelled or subdued and absorbed the less civilized aborigines. 132 EARLY DAWN OF CHINESE HISTORY. Nor is it at all unlikely that the vast and fertile regions ofthe Yellow Lands/ lying mainly north of the Hoang-ho, playinga leading part in the early history of the Chinese people. Herewas rQom for millions of agriculturists who may have graduallymigrated eastwards according as the lacustrine basins dried up andthe sands of the desert encroached upon the cultivated plains ofCentral Asia, where the forefathers of the Chinese had dwelt inclose proximity with those of the Turki, Hindu and Iranian river valley became a highway of emigration and conse-quently
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