84 THE CHINA REVIEW.

THE NOBLE ART OF SELF-DEFENCE IN CHINA.

'Tn Norm AM or Sur-nsmcs.‘ Canton, Imprinted and sold at the sign of the Eve
Cassia Trees, Kan-hing Place.

If the gentlemen who made and. published well adapted to the tropics, which we delight
the notablediscovery thateverything in to persist in wearing in China.

exact to what it is in So little truth is there in the principle of

China. is the contrary
to more strictly, in the universal that it had need be at
oontrariety,
the West,1- or, speak
narrow villages where they had been once replaud by a principle of \inivsrsal re
" raised,” it may be pro semblance, with only such difi‘erenees of
and beyond which,
snmed, their experience had not, up to that species as obtain between the English dog
and the Chinese dog. Most people would
time, been extended—if these gentlemen had
admit that there are dogs in China, and that
looked a little deeper into Chinese life than
the mere surface on which they descried they bark; whereas, a priori, it might be sup

trivial accidents of
as the colouring posed that they would mew. A sometime
such
or the side on which you mount a police magistrate of Hongkong, having bc~
shoes
horse, they would possibly have discovered fore him a petition purporting to be from

that Illnost every Western institution (ex “The elders and gentry" of a certain dis
cept the railway and the telegraph) has its
trict, remarked from the bench, with con
analogue in China, and that even some of siderable warmth, that there was no such

the things which We look upon as more par thing as a gentleman in China, meaning, of
ticularly occidental are reproduced in China course, a Chinese gentleman. To which the
with a curious likeness, and yet with curious onlyr possible answer was, that, adopting this

difi'erenoes also, which make these insem method of criticism, there could be no such

blances well worth attention. There are thing in China as a shoe, or a pencil, a book,

curious differences of course, for even the or a ship. These things certainly exist in
writer who did the comic business for the the middle kingdom and so do gentlemen,

Chinese Repository would hardly expect that but in a form slightly diiferent from that
Chinese social life should be a mere abject under which they are seen elsewhere. The
copy of those European custom which we same thing is true of what, at first sight,

well know to be in every way more excellent seem such thoroughly Western institutions
as circulating libraries and Fire Brigades,
than anything the world ever has seen or

ever will see—more especially the con which were probably fully developed in
venient, healthy, and comfortable dress, so China before they were perfected in either
England or America.
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‘ Notes and Queries I.
Reposilorfluf!
forget in which volume), reprinted, ands a (China) Vol. p. 100
and Vol. 11. p. 1.
purified, by Sir John Davis in his book on China.

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