Where Half The World Is Waking Up - The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions
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Project Gutenberg's Where Half The World Is Waking Up, by Clarence PoeThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Where Half The World Is Waking UpAuthor: Clarence PoeRelease Date: July 30, 2009 [EBook #29546]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UP ***Produced by Don KostuchTranscriber's note:Page numbers are enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}. They are located where page breaks occurred in theoriginal book. Paragraphs are not broken.When a paragraph flows around illustrations the "next" page immediately preceding or following the illustrationsjumps to account for the pages occupied by the illustrations. The location of the paragraph following theillustration group is indicated as {52 continued}. The material following {10}, up to the next {}, is on page 10,even if the next page number is not 11.WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UPCOUNT SHIGE-NOBU OKUMA OF JAPAN(From a photograph and autograph given the author)Count Okuma, one of the Genro or Elder Statesmen of Japan and ex-Premier of the Empire, is an opponent ofhis country's high protective tariff and an earnest advocate of international arbitration.WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UPTHE OLD AND THE NEW IN JAPAN, CHINA, THE PHILIPPINES, AND ...

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Project Gutenberg's Where Half The World Is Waking
Up, by Clarence Poe
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no
cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,
give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: Where Half The World Is Waking Up
Author: Clarence Poe
Release Date: July 30, 2009 [EBook #29546]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UP ***
Produced by Don KostuchTranscriber's note:
Page numbers are enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}.
They are located where page breaks occurred in the
original book. Paragraphs are not broken.
When a paragraph flows around illustrations the "next"
page immediately preceding or following the
illustrations jumps to account for the pages occupied
by the illustrations. The location of the paragraph
following the illustration group is indicated as {52
continued}. The material following {10}, up to the next
{}, is on page 10, even if the next page number is not
11.
WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UP
COUNT SHIGE-NOBU OKUMA OF JAPAN
(From a photograph and autograph given the author)
Count Okuma, one of the Genro or Elder Statesmen
of Japan and ex-Premier of the Empire, is an
opponent of his country's high protective tariff and an
earnest advocate of international arbitration.WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UP
THE OLD AND THE NEW IN JAPAN, CHINA, THE
PHILIPPINES, AND INDIA, REPORTED WITH
ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO AMERICAN
CONDITIONS
BY
CLARENCE POE
Author of "A Southerner in Europe," "Cotton: Its
Cultivation
and Manufacture," Editor "The Progressive Farmer,"
Sec'y North Carolina Historical Association, etc., etc.
Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1911ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY CLARENCE POE
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS
GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
TO
THE RIGHT HONORABLE JAMES BRYCE
IN WHOM ACHIEVEMENT, CHARACTER AND
PERSONAL CHARM MEET IN RARE SYMMETRY;
WHO HAS WON THE WISDOM OF AGE WITHOUT
LOSING THE DEW OP YOUTH; AND WHOSE
GENEROUS FRIENDSHIP HAD MADE ME HIS
DEBTOR BEFORE IT AIDED ME ANEW IN
PLANNING AND EXECUTING MY ORIENTAL TOUR{vii}
PREFACE
"The human race, to which so many of my readers
belong," as Mr. Gilbert Chesterton begins one of his
books by saying, has half its members in Asia. That
Americans should know something about so
considerable a portion of our human race is manifestly
worth while. And really to know them at all we must
know them as they are to-day.
Vast changes are in progress, and even as I write this,
the revolution in China, foreshadowed in the chapters
written by me from that country, is remaking the
political life of earth's oldest empire. From Japan to
India there is industrial, educational, political ferment.
The old order changes, yielding place to the new.
"Where Half the World is Waking Up" is not
inappropriate therefore as the title of the book now
offered to the public. The reader will kindly observe
here that I have written of where half the world is
waking up and not merely of the waking-up itself. My
purpose has been to set forth the old and the new in
due proportion; to present the play of new forces
against and upon the ancient, the amazingly ancient,
forces that have dominated whole races for centuries.
In most places, in fact, the ancient force is still clearly
the dominant one. Observe, too, therefore, that I have
written not of where half the world has waked up, but
only of where it is waking up. The significant thing is
that the waking is really taking place at all, and of thisthere can be no doubt.
It was, in short, with the hope of securing for myself
and presenting to others a photograph of the Orient as
it is to-day that I made my long trip through Japan,
Korea, Manchuria, {viii} China, the Philippines, and
India during the past year. It was not a pleasure trip
nor yet a hurried "seaport trip." I travelled either
entirely across or well into the interior of each country
visited, and all my time was given to study and
research to fit me for the preparation of these articles.
That despite of the care exercised the book contains
some errors, is doubtless true. The sources of
information in the Orient are not always easy to find,
nor always in accord after one finds them. Consider,
for example, the population of Manchuria: it seems a
simple enough matter, yet it required the help of
consuls of two or three nations to enable me to sift out
the truth from the conflicting representations of
several writers and so-called authorities.
For my part I can only claim a laborious and
painstaking effort to get the facts. Letters of
introduction to eminent Englishmen kindly furnished
me by Ambassador Bryce opened the doors of British
officialdom for me, and the friendship of Mr. Roosevelt
and letters from Mr. Bryan and our Department of
State proved helpful in other ways. I thus had the
good fortune not only to get the ready fraternal
assistance of my brother newspaper men (of all races)
everywhere, and the help of English, German, and
American consuls, but I was aided by some of the
most eminent authorities in each country visited--inChina, by H. E. Tang Shao-yi, Wu Ting Fang, Sir
Robert Bredon, Dr. C. D. Tenney, Dr. Timothy
Richard; in Japan, by ex-Premier Okuma, Viscount
Kaneko, Baron Shibusawa, Dr. Juichi Soyeda; in Hong
Kong, by Governor-General Sir Frederick Lugard; in
Manila by Governor-General Forbes, Vice-Governor
Gilbert; in India, the members of the Viceroy's
Cabinet, Hon. Krishnaswami Iyer, Dr. J. P. Jones, etc,
etc. To all of these and to scores of others, my
grateful acknowledgments are tendered. They helped
me get information, but of course are in no case to be
held responsible for any opinions that I have
expressed.
To Mr. G. D. Adams, of Akron, Ohio, and Dr. Arthur
{ix} Mez, of Mannheim, Germany, two generous
fellow-travellers, my thanks are due for the use of
many of their photographs, and I am also indebted to
The World's Work and The Review of Reviews for
permission to republish articles that have already
appeared in these magazines. The larger number of
chapters included in this volume, however, were
originally prepared with a view to their use in my own
paper, The Progressive Farmer. They are, therefore,
often more elementary in character, let me say in the
outset, than if they had been written exclusively for
bookbuyers, but it is my hope that their journalistic
flavor, even if it has this disadvantage, will also be
found to have certain compensating qualities.
Perhaps just one other thing ought to be said: that
practically every article about any country was written
while I was still in the country described. In this way I
hoped not only to write with greater freshness andvividness, but I was enabled to have my articles
revised and criticised by friends well informed
concerning the subjects discussed. The reader will
please bear in mind, therefore, that a letter about
Tokyo is also a letter from Tokyo, a letter about Korea
is a letter from Korea, etc., and shift his viewpoint
accordingly. I have also thought it best to be frank with
the reader and let the chapters on China remain
exactly as they were written--presenting a pen picture
of the Dragon Empire as it appeared on the eve of the
outbreak, while the revolution was indeed definitely in
prospect but not yet a reality.
"Give us as many anecdotes as you can," was old
Samuel Johnson's advice to Boswell, when that worthy
proposed to write of Corsica; and this wise suggestion
I have sought to keep in mind in all my travel.
Moreover, another saying of the great lexicographer's
comes quaintly into my memory as I conclude this
Foreword: "There are two things which I am confident
I could do very well," he once remarked to Sir Joshua
Reynolds; "one is an introduction to any literary work
stating {x} what it is to contain, and how it should be
executed in the most perfect manner: the other is a
conclusion, showing from various causes why the
execution has not been equal to what the author
promised to himself and to the publick!"
C. P.
Raleigh, N. C.
December 1, 1911.{xi}
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Japan: The Land of Upside Down 3
A Land of Contradictions
Music as an Example
Marriage and the Home Life
Patriarchal Ideas Still Dominant.
II
Snapshots of Japanese Life and Philosophy 9
.
What a Japanese City Is Like
Strange Clothing of the Japanese
Who Ever Saw So Many Babies?
Alphonse and Gaston Outdone
The Grace of the Little Women
How the Old Japan and the Old South Were Alike
A "Moral Distinction" Between Producers and Non
-Producers.

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