 ... than his own, the Chinese do not seem very puzzling. Allowing for differences in outfit of knowledge and fundamental ideas, they act much as we should act under their circumstances.  A.L.A. Booklist - Page 1451912Full view - About this book
 | Edward Alsworth Ross - China - 1911 - 388 pages
...culture or another type of social organization than his own, the Chinese do not seem very puzzling. Allowing for difference in outfit of knowledge and...act much as we should act under their circumstances. The theory, dear to literary interpreters of the Orient, that owing to diversity in mental constitution... | |
 | John Otway Percy Bland - China - 1912 - 618 pages
...of social organisation than his own, the Chinese do not seem very puzzling. Allowing for differences in outfit of knowledge and fundamental ideas, they...act much as we should act under their circumstances. The theory, dear to literary interpreters of the Orient, that 5 owing to diversity in mental constitution... | |
 | John Otway Percy Bland - China - 1912 - 602 pages
...of social organisation than his own, the Chinese do not seem very puzzling. Allowing for differences in outfit of knowledge and fundamental ideas, they...act much as we should act under their circumstances. The theory, dear to literary interpreters of the Orient, that 5 owing to diversity in mental constitution... | |
 | Josephine Adams Rathbone - Voyages and travels - 1919 - 94 pages
...feelings, superstitions and philosophy of life. Ross, Edward Alsworth. The changing Chinese. Century, 1911. One of the most readable and informing of recent books...fighting spirit of the new army may well be doubted." enabled the author to see the Chinese as they are. While pitilessly telling the truth, there is nothing... | |
 | Asia - 1919 - 1090 pages
...type of civilization than his own, the Chinese do not seem very puzzling. Allowing for differences in outfit of knowledge and fundamental ideas, they act much as we should do under their circumstances." Given these changes in the point of view of the missionary, due to his... | |
 | English literature - 1912 - 538 pages
...of social organisation than his own, the Chinese do not seem very puzzling. Allowing for differences in outfit of knowledge and fundamental ideas, they...act much as we should act under their circumstances. The theory, dear to literary interpreters of the Orient, that owing to diversity in mental constitution... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Books - 1911 - 410 pages
...of social organization than his own, the Chinese do not seem very puzzling. Allowing for differences in outfit of knowledge and fundamental ideas, they...act much as we should act under their circumstances. The theory, dear to literary interpreters of the Orient, that owing to diversity in mental constitution... | |
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