قراءة كتاب 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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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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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.
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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. |
| III. | Japanese Farming and Farmer Folk | 17 |
| Japanese Farm Children Getting More Schooling than American Farm Children | ||
| No Illiteracy in the New Japan | ||
| Where Five Acres Is a Large Farm | ||
| How Iowa Might Feed the Whole United States | ||
| Farming Without Horses or Oxen | ||
| What the Japanese Farmers Raise | ||
| The Crime of Soil-waste | ||
| All Work Done by Hand | ||
| Cooperative Credit Societies a Success | ||
| Farm Houses Grouped in Villages | ||
| "A Seller of the Ancestral Land" | ||
| The Japanese Love of the Beautiful a Suggestion for America. |
| IV. | "Welfare Work" in Japanese Factories | 29 |
| Manufacturing Bound to Increase | ||
| Tariff Legislation Unfair to Agriculture | ||
| A Visit to a Progressive Japanese Factory | ||
| How the Factory Operatives Are Looked After | ||
| Stricter Factory Legislation Coming. |
| V. | Does Japanese Competition Menace the White Man's Trade | 34 |
| A Study of Japanese Industrial Conditions | ||
| Japanese Labor Cheap but Inefficient | ||
| Actual Cost of Output Little Cheaper than in America | ||
| Laborers in a State {xii} of Deplorable Inexperience | ||
| Illustrations of Japanese Inefficiency | ||
| Some Current Misconceptions Corrected | ||
| Labor Wage Has Increased 40 Per Cent, in Eight Years | ||
| The Burden of Taxation | ||
| High Tariff Will Decrease Japan's Export Trade | ||
| Subsidy Policy Destroying Individual Initiative | ||
| Japanese Competition Not a Serious Menace to the White Man. |
| VI. | Buddhism, Shintoism, and Christianity in Japan | 48 |
| The Artistic Touch of the Japanese | ||
| Religion Without Morals | ||
| Buddhism in Fact vs. Buddhism Idealized by Arnold | ||
| Official Notices Prohibiting Christianity | ||
| Christianity "Puts Too High an Estimate on Woman" | ||
| The Worth of the Individual Not Recognized | ||
| The Elemental Significance of Japan's Awakening | ||
| A New Type of Civilization. |
| VII. | Korea: "The Land of the Morning Calm" | 60 |
| I Have Become a Contemporary of David | ||
| The Fascination of a Primitive City | ||
| Some Odd Korean Customs | ||
| A True Romance and an Odd One | ||
| Many Faces Marked by Smallpox | ||
| A Typical Monarchy of Ancient Asia- | ||
| The Honorable Mr. Yang-ban | ||
| Six Men to Carry Fifty Dollars' Worth of Money | ||
| Japanese Annexation | ||
| Splendid Work of Foreign Missionaries. |