Ebook Chinese Characteristics

Witness when put upon the stand is expected to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Many witnesses concerning the Chinese have told the truth, but perhaps few of them have succeeded in telling nothing but the truth, and no one of them has ever told the whole truth. N 0 single individual, whatever the extent of his knowl edge, could by any possibility know the whole truth about the Chinese. The present volume of essays is therefore open to objection from three different points of view.