Selected Articles on China Yesterday and TodayJulia Emily Johnsen |
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Page 245 - Powers above named their findings of fact in regard to these matters, and their recommendations as to such means as they may find suitable to improve the existing conditions of the administration of justice in China, and to assist and further the efforts of the Chinese Government to effect such legislation and judicial reforms as would warrant the several Powers in relinquishing, either progressively or otherwise, their respective rights of extraterritoriality...
Page 57 - Modern times find themselves with an immense system of institutions, established facts, accredited dogmas, customs, rules, which have come to them from times not modern. In this system their life has to be carried forward; yet they have a sense that this system is not of their own creation, that it by no means corresponds exactly with the wants of their actual life, that, for them, it is customary, not rational.
Page 43 - The cheek-bones are prominent, the eyes almondshaped, oblique upwards and outwards, and the hair coarse, lank and invariably black. The beard appears late in life, and remains generally scanty. The eyebrows are straight, and the iris of the eye is black. The nose is generally short, broad and flat. The hands and feet are disproportionately small, and the body early inclines to obesity. The complexion varies from an almost pale-yellow to a dark-brown, without any red or ruddy tinge. Yellow however...
Page 228 - If the said rights are threatened by the aggressive action of any other Power, the High Contracting Parties shall communicate with one another fully and frankly in order to arrive at an understanding as to the most efficient measures to be taken, jointly or separately, to meet the exigencies of the particular situation.
Page 253 - The Government of the Republic of China declares that likin shall be abolished simultaneously with the enforcement of the Chinese National Tariff law; and further declares that the abolition of likin shall be effectively carried out by the First Day of the First Month of the Eighteenth Year of the Republic of China (Jan, 1st, 1929).
Page 250 - The United States is now and has been, ever since the negotiation of the Washington Treaty, prepared to enter into negotiations with any Government of China, or delegates who can represent or speak for China...
Page 291 - All questions in regard to rights, whether of property or person, arising between citizens of the United States in China, shall be subject to the jurisdiction, and regulated by the authorities of their own government ; and all controversies occurring in China between citizens of the United States and the subjects of any other government shall be regulated by the treaties existing between the United States and such governments respectively, without interference on the part of China.
Page 84 - In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the centre of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
Page ii - Prohibition: Modification of the Volstead Law 2.40 Slavonic Nations of Yesterday and Today 2.40 Social Insurance 2.40 States Rights 2.40 Study of Latin and Greek 1.80 Unemployment Insurance 2.40 War — Cause and Cure 2.40 Series II Vol.
Page 265 - Chinese law courts as the competent courts for cases brought by British plaintiffs or complainants and to waive the right of attendance of a British representative at the hearing of such cases. 2. His Majesty's Government are prepared to recognize the validity of a reasonable Chinese nationality law.