The Chinese People:
We have
the northern Chinese, acclimatized to
simple
thinking and hard living,
tall
and stalwart, hale, hearty
and humorous, onion -eating
and
fun-loving, children of nature, who
are in every
way more Mongolic than
the conglo meration of peoples
near Shanghai...down the
southeast coast, south of
the Yangtze, one meets
a
different
type, inured to ease
and culture and sophisti-cation,
mentally developed
but physically
retrograde,
loving their poetry and
their
comforts, sleek under-grown
men and
slim neurasthenic
women....
- Lin Yutang |
