Modern Review August 1920

Now we submit to the free peoples of the world the reaions Just:iying the revolution and the inaugurtion of the pre.ent government. [...] tion of the throne by the Manchus: the land was open t.r foreign intilcourse and religalu toleration misted ac is shown by the wraingc of Marco Polo and the inscription on the Ne‘toran tablet at phi-atqe: Dominated by ignorance and the Manchus closed the land to the utt r world and plunged the Chinese into a state of benighted mentality calculated to operate invnvely to their natural talents [...] The case made by them against the Manchus does not exhibit a picture of the atrocities of Spanish rule in the Netherlands and Peru or the horrors of the Siberian dungeons under the Romanofis. [...] The definite references to the iniquities ft! the Manchu administration arc vague indeed but they would be equally applicable to the decl:::ing periods of the Indigenous Chinese dyna itirs Sun Vat-sen's account of the :Manchus he same as Emperor Shoon-chi the Manvi:iis account of the last Dings and the historian.Sze Machien's account of the last Hans Besides the grievances enumerated in this [...] The fundamental tact in the politics of Young Asia is thus the revolt of the East against the domination of the West.—no matter whether it manifests itself in the establishment of a consttutional monarchy or in the founding of a monarchless republic ; no matter whether it cosists in the expulsion of a ruler or in the subversion of a dynasty.