Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
That “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”, Rudyard Kipling has impressed on us, and the dictum is widely accepted as an article of popular faith. But as an axiom it is not be to pressed without certain qualifications.
Beyond doubt there prevail certain antipathies, dissympathies, and as it were static estṛangements of populations, deeply rooted in racial sub-consciousness, but capable of becoming profoundly dynamic under appropriate stimulation and appeal.
page 51 note 1 Yin Hsü Shu Ch'i K'ao Shih, p. 68.Google Scholar
page 54 note 1 See Legge, , Chinese Classics, vol. v, pt. i, pp. 314 (text), 320 (English).Google Scholar
page 64 note 1 I do not understand this alleged astronomical fact.
page 64 note 2 More strictly speaking, is the modern development of , which is the primitive scription of hsün.
page 67 note 1 See Chavannes, , Memoires historiques, vol. i, pp. 215–16Google Scholar, and vol. iv, pp. 1–2, cited also by Pelliot, , T'oung Pao, vol. xix, No. 5, p. 364, n. 143.Google Scholar
page 72 note 1 As to which see Chavannes, , M´moires historiques, vol. 2, Appendice 1, p. 517.Google Scholar