Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 7, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 Wynn Lutc Hul Pkt is Saiu Ruay july 7, China s loth Century Ascendancy Fly a. 11. Youson draw from inc Coin Unity cars while Culi Mial Powers to Iii Sci has its old Force. Tilc super. C 11 a 0 t t town. This wider distribution at i Riim kuwar.1 Island p c r should make fur imn it swahili to a lilt . Aie Jit Siuki is just now making its Icin Plisik to colonial Hohul on the world stage As the Lawr world Stase domination under n different Ilic third world Power. This of tic balance of pm. Involves a fundamental shift Power China s new role has therefore the role of us in the focus of world politics. Similar effect. The Era of per Power he repudiates. In this shift will affect us All. The supremacy of the two the sino Contr in world View ii is imperative that we in the . And China stands As the Champi Der stand its nature and con u. Is passing and on of what she Calls the two sequences if we in the West diving Way to a trilateral Ile Moscow and washing tension As it were of our ton Bill Loo with peking. Selves upon alien and infer it is then in this new role or lands. U will be difficult Ilia we Musl look to China. To gras therefore the a 11 we Are to do so intelligent Longiny Anil scale of chinese by we must see China not As history of an Empire co a c o in m u n i s 1 Parven ten vinous in time and Exton abruptly bursting onto the Wilh the Itoman Empire. 01 world stage Wilh a relevance an athenian age in China ii d i s e o v c r c d Only in 19w. Which confucius to and ital her we Musl View in in Chuiang Tzu played a Compa the very Long continuum of Brablc though very different role from that of Plato. Elsewhere has exhibited such Energy and tenacity in in will in survive. The viability no loss than the continuity of chinese civilization is one of ils most striking traits. We must nol Only understand China in the context of a less self entered View of history we must try to understand China on her own terms. Much of what recent visitors to China describe As the puzzling manifestations of the chinese might More readily be called the stubborn insistence of the Western mind to conceive everything in Western this ethnocentric Ity results in distortion just As does a failure to see China in historical context. We owe this Loo to Lac ethnocentric Ity of Western intellectual history. Hut this is even harder for us to grasp. We shall have to consider Lac language Barrier _ a Gulf across which i we try to communicate and lie false equations that result from languages that Are poles apart. We shall have to consider the value systems of chinese civilization As being other than and made independently of our own and not make the mistake of thinking of Western ideals a n d aspirations As being somehow the Universal aspirations of All Mankind. We shall have to ask if our models of social and economic behaviour evolved from and perhaps appropriate to Western experience arc useful measures of chinese Dala and achievement. China then in the Long rather than the immediate View and China on its own. Rather than our terms will t think do much to help us to understand the emergence of China on the world scene and her relevance to our future courses of action we will misunderstand much in Mao s China if we look no further Back than arc not to repeat our tragic balance. In this balance developed Clun recent history in Asia lint China As it were provides tries Wlinich in very let such an understanding will h c third if of a tripod. This degrees he sees As require a considerable re tl10, 1 May make in soviet or american he orientation in our . Nic Over All or greater Sta a crony and the second the Andrew Shonfield Speaks 01" Billy. The options open to developing world the Britain s entry into the euro u o s a u Powers arc former colonies which can Community As being greater. No longer in the alleges to be the not merely the addition of final resort will they need to object of superpower rivalry one More member to that a in inexorably with mos Champion China pm is Community but As introduce cow or Washington. The a arcs herself As apart from ing a Basic change in its Yearance of peking holds out but an equal of the other two Structure. The effective bal third alternative. The area superpowers acc of Power hitherto held fur Independent manoeuvre whatever the chairman s by France and Germany will w " greater. Interpretation of this May be now be posed by tween three. Mao t s c 1 u n g would he sees As clearly As does As a consequence the ill express this somewhat Dif Henry Kissinger that the Lindale Sanction the threat for cantly. Describing the Rise realities of the focus of Liy one or the other to with of soviet and american Power now lie not or Aristotle in the West. Ii will c salutary to Foj _ _ remember thai Marco Polo f if described Llan Chow in the thirteenth Century still tin showplace of Mao s China history. This will not 1 pc East world and Marco Roh 0 u r Western intellectual Flom at ils Enterprise As it is has been we pause to re pursued in our universities . Inc ins for the last ten centuries has science As regarded the history of West sons Chi Lac Ern civilization As history it Between the him self. The civilizations of Llu thirteenth centuries Ndia and China have Only of scientific knowl impinged upon it As part of m tin. Imperial history As an sex finally no Cable to a a by Arthur Unger while the consumer is con 8. Weak signal because str m to new York n y fillip t0 " c Cable it s w3s he ast 0" ulc at1 if new toll Cable nol kid he says 9. 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The fact is that most most times the Serviceman Cable customers Are sub arrived within 24 hours the in is re to Sib a scribing for improved recep franchise requires service a i lion. All of the other benefits within 48 but the f the a died Are still too much in the sex level of competence of the t Brno thu me Primental stage to qualify servicemen seemed to vary Contro immediate la even if As major subscription lures greatly. Here Are the various the source is t except for special sports reasons Given for the vertical subscriber s to set if the rap r o g r a m in i n g in a few color bars haziness and diction areas and even More in ghosts about which he com by Transfer of Power. A Nev portent would to Consumers planned or How dangerous this be so ready to subscribe if 1. Trouble in the to set radiation they were made aware of 2. Amplifier needs adjust May to unsuspecting sub certain problems in main input scribers is a topic about Laining top Quality reception ,1. Converter needs adjust which i Many Cable executives which they might by buying my prefer nol to speculate for themselves As Weir 4. Bad connection to feeder assume that you Are a or. Manning does not deny line Cable to subscriber with bad that there arc innumerable s. Rain in inc connection reception. How do you Cope opportunities for to signal g. Loose connection of an with the Billing interference which can cause other set on the line says v. P. Dunning if Home reception to deteriorate 7. Defective set on the line someone complains that i1h9. All is not new and much of the seemingly new is very old indeed. Reception is a disappointment lion. You have a right to a Mao s China indeed and they ask in be Discon ipod says or. Throughout Asia history is i cited. We say Okay remove polls of Nita. And if you Vii y present reality and 1 the Cable Patch and sparkle Don t get in you have a right More in contemporary where necessary although in yell and demand in from China As Conli Noily Wilh the we Don t repaint and then your local Cable Ian As abrupt change cancel All charges. If the Sig lust wha constr a under the Impact of alien Nal just deteriorates Tempo Good 1 picture though rarely we credit for tic Well a Rood picture like us consider China s i Coriou of time when the con Beauty is in the Eye of the be pc clean inc period Sumer is not receiving the Holder. Llic sixth to the Bird proper . If an am Lii of y Are considering buries . In he c y or goes Oul and a whole Cable to re forewarned on Niblock is without service for a you will be subscribing to a As in week we credit everybody service which is by no Means Hilo Ophy was Lorn he for that weeks service. Jer fact. Hopefully you will i. I v. 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Of Oral Rule when we say in is a More Ca sized. F the greeks Sel condition it turns out to Price Well the Cost of inc in a set condition. After All Sterling Manhattan service is chinese were always asking each service Call costs us average right now. A about and we arc not a Buti Don t count on in re sympathetic student of China Lowed to charge any fee at Mailling hat Way especially said of for to. 11s services Are chinese philosophy. We find Hal about 35 per idd cd according to v p a is us athenian cent of All Calls arc due to we lost s5 million som Elhag wrong with the if we had control. In their Early Saccu Hirons in set itself the set not you can be cer Ain the cos As to How to achieve the plugged in or turned on prop would in More than per Well ordered society from its cry or a customer Misac month. The franchise first realizations in Han jus Lent like fiddling with Lin lits los Hal Price a Chilili the Fine tuning dial on inc present. There just Aren t Lution. Dynasty by dynasty Sel or converter can of change ill continuity of p of inc came s u Nacri be r for y Lii ical institutions up to inc soul not give up Loo was y rethinking of Hal tradition and accept imperfect Recap the Christian science Monitor during Lac first half of fighting off those mid career blahs innovations introduced under by m1-xv1n Haddocks 1. Y n n c Cucamonga and Sion of a fresh Start. That s from a Smith Boston Safete end fixer s to Jec inc a Dif inspiration of marxist the mid Cirer by is will Uay the same people one idea. R a a Mailer of hours alter Ferent self in a different ideology. Since in the West i lie Mki-c.uu.1 i. Us win it on. The same people get r 10 had been hired As Porter world. To work with your we know much about theoret get you if you Don t watch off. Have another Urco Lemiux for three Days hands even Rich la As a to marxism and so Little out. Lust when you think Walter Monty was a victim of a Mcrford col successful College pres cation is to open yourself to a Lio u 1 chinese institutions you be risen at last Lor Lac mid career blahs old a cols i 1 e n 1 failed dishwasher All Sor s of variant u entities it Sec Miu a that seems the level Vou deserve just talc Lllan urge to switch careers. Pm let Syrl l is of Nice humbling a f in contradiction Between when you can paint on your us Linial Iko Mill a played. "1 was few of them shattering but Mese rhetoric and cheese office door in Gold be tors he Rah a v of need to escape life s main he has been quoted assay All of them to say the least. Really a today. Kven i be made ii under that of m try role now and then. Unlike he made a come Edue Aliona a so ugly m ice door creep the blahs. Ace and so Forth he whole a Miry. A Coloman s escape lick is Sandwich and i e o 1 c who Don t work trans action suffers disc Orlyu the mid i reer buhs ire life s main role now and salad Man. With their hands a after hereby. Thev n Ihen. Unlike Mill. Or. Cole or. Coleman had his Rea Day should t n is to re sir Hie red c no o no m y Man s escapes arc nol fan to nothing of his manual people who member that the response of Iro i Floe z Felc " e Over i More Borg game t a s i c s Thev real Hank account to fall Don t work with Paer Day West to marxism like s wlvit7 0 is is downward Mobile rather it k Wise acres Par after Day. Should t roman leninism based upon our Lam want you eally w ,0nc than Upwall Mobile. Or. Co Hose who have desk both can historical conditioning by in Iii Sou Italy want is expected to do som Elhag a labor co Nomis by done less Are free to put become ghastly dead ends Sti Tutins and values is the Clef symptom of the about it his crisis that own or. Coleman ses but another observer of All vastly different from that of mid career blahs is an awful feds men with 15 or 20 years of a sen Ester Sab a lie 1 Sapade As slumming or Blue sorts of blahs pointed out a the response to it by inc sense of More of the Samc. Of the same thing behind the unskilled Labo e Collar dilettante so. But if the pro founder problem perhaps chinese. It has been the be one has arrived a this cer them and 15 or 20 years of a cow Rcd a a Nicl in blahs Are the pcs the ultimate mid career Nius of Mao to have convert lain trifling competence. 1 lit the same thing ahead of a i. 1erale signal for a new per problem. A professional Iden cd the terminology Ami cer. All if seems to bring is tins them. Economists with a a Ollic Speel ivc the Coleman Iscra Lily worn like a uniform Tain of the principles of alarm ice Lilc Eelig of level Luis i r n to compassion like College Park my by should not be dismiss Sec keeps Man from seeing his into chinese terms that off. One has no horizon no i Elco Drucker have suggest i it i Aih Biu. G evoke a response in China a future. One Leils like the de that victims of the mid or. Coltman s two month say a chair pc of profession Tio ship to Ooi Pascal Sug response As much of Reasonr comic for on a very Niiori career Walls should go Back Saga which might be titled Promise a sharper shake to tested. Garbage collectors ing familiarity As of. I Nova Comini Ili a line singing out to school and retool for a Down and out in inc . The old Kaleidoscope Coleman sur posts Don t lion. Hence the astonishing inc same stations Day after new career a fresh Start in and Canada reached a Sorl to work with your hands have that Iron Lam at least. Acceptability of Mao Iho Imohl Day p a d d i n g 1 o n task their -10 s or at least inc ill of Climax when he was fired us As a hobbyist or week Salt no Monitor China and he energies it has aroused in in Lac Well ordered society at least in one classic description of a something not unlike the modern commune is described in the districts Fields belong to a common Well Field unit. In their coining and goings let friendliness prevail among the people and Lei there be co opera Tion in the duties of watch and Ward and Mutual help in time of sickness. Men nits a. 3 no one thinks that the Well Field system in its Clas sic elegance Ever actually existed but As part of a confucian Ideal with two thou Sand years of conditioning in these ideals there is a familiar and reassuring Echo from China s past in the concept of the commune. To us Wilh roman notions of the Sanctity of property and personal Possession Lac idea might Well be repugnant. Even the soviets were taken Aback at the introduction of the com Mune into China which they conceived to be dangerously premature. In the Well ordered society the Well being of the com Mon people is the touch Stone of the Efficacy of a dynasty heaven gives ils Man Date to a dynasty upon lease. T h e lease is surrendered when the common people Sufich unduly. Whatever the real dynamics of dynastic change in chinese history the sufferings of the people Are recurring by adduced As Ade quate j 1 i f i c a t i o n for change. Nothing was so toll ing in the fall of Chiang Kai Shek than the fact Hal the s u f f c r i n g s of the people whatever their real betokened his loss of the conversely Noth ing is so reassuring in ibo chinese View of the virtue of the present regime As the evident Prosperity of he peo ple. During the Han dynasty cent. . 2d cent. . The shape of modern China was first delineated. Its boundaries approximate closely to the boundaries of modern China. Further in inc Han dynasty the Long de Bates began about the nature of chinese relations with its neighbors. Ii is impossible to compress the Range of enquiry and the Long process of irial and error that the Han chinese indulged in before i h i1 Broad outlines of a foreign policy were drawn up. But once settled those outlines recur again and again in chinese history. In Brief the decision after painful failure was to reject Lac idea of military Conquest abroad and direct occupation and to opt for a system of suzerainty in which beyond China proper acting As a glaces the peripheral states of Korea Vietnam Thailand Burma and the Himalayan Llauge the protectorates of Central Asia and a o n g o 1 i a acknowledged chinese by Token gifts. But this was suzerainty not in the european sense of political or economic domination Over subject Peoples bul of a tactic defer ral to the superiority of Chin Ese culture Ami Virtues. The political integrity of the Border kingdoms was respected and chinese policy has traditionally supported legitimacy in these Stales As making for inner and there fore for chinese Security. The intrusion however of external Powers into the countries of the chinese rim arouses intuitive chinese sensitivities acutely. It is difficult for a person like myself familiar with chinese history nol in see recent moves by peking As a palimpsest As it were trac ing Over old and traditional . The intense provocation that peking feels in the intrusion by external Powers into the rim the . In Korea Taiwan and Vietnam and t h a i 1 a n d and the .s.it, beyond the amur Hiver and in Central Asia is a traditional no less than a modern reaction. The Dicolo g i c a 1 contradiction of a marxist China supporting the Royal House of Cam Bodia and the present regime in p a k i s t a n against the More politically sympathetic slate of Bangladesh May appear to be ideologically in consistent but i his support for legitimacy in Suzerain states derives More from chinese intuition and prat1 Tice than from doctrinaire consistency in this View for example Hie Domino adduced As a Justin Calion fur american intrusion in South East Asia seemed incongruous. China s relations Wilh Southeast Asia follow a Long and consistent pattern. Direct Conquest and political domination do not ii Urc in that pattern. The intrusion Inlo the protective ring by a foreign Power As in Thailand and Vietnam and Korea was a s c r i o provocation to China. In View of this China has showed classic restraint in not in what it regards As an internal Mai Ler for Vietnam and classic consistency in ils recognition 01 to Chi bul we need a furl her shill in historical perspective if n i h e r aspects of present asian realities arc to come clearer Inlo focus. The epoch from 1500-l , the period of Western intrusion into Asia whether As mercantile expansion missionary Endeavor or latterly As political Conquest looms Large in our history As the epoch in which Asia be came relevant for us. In the asian View this epoch in the Long continuum of asian memories is Short intrusive and a disruption in ils own Long continuum. In the Broad sweep the ancient civilizations of Asia India Southeast Asia and China either militarily Over run intellectually and economically threatened and in part undermined by the ener Gies of the thrust of the Western Powers have since the second world War been engaging in a Renaissance. They Are Bent on a return to self determination in every sense and they have shown themselves Able to pursue those goals with astonishing vigor. They Are beginning to speak from a position of Power. It should now be axiomatic after the retreats from Asia of the Dulch Brit ish and French after the Sec Ond world War that the period of Western patronage policing and interference in Asia is Over. I now turn to a Western i 1 e in in a in understanding China which finds expression in Sueh journalistic asides As the puzzling manifestations of the chinese mind or the traveller s remark when some observation seems perplexing but then. I Don t speak the the main Barrier is not so much one of lexicography As of the Long history of cultural conditioning for which words in the chinese language Are but a form of notation. No student of chinese civilization having crossed the wide Gulf of language to examine it from within can fail to a d m i r e chinese achievements in learning and literature and Art in the sophistical Ion of its political and social institutions and the essential humanity of its philosophy. But with his initiation Inlo the language the student enters a world of unfamiliarity. In Early learns that Lac assumptions he thought were Universal in Al most every Field of intellectual Endeavor prove i Western idiosyncratic Anil confined in space and time in ills own Western heritage. Very Basic Assumption lie h a s needs re examination n n d in the chinese Mold before it be comes applicable or useful. In my own special Field Al most every Universal of linguistic behaviour must be set temporarily aside and new hypotheses formulated before the chinese language yields to useful analysis. To Lake an example illustrative i think of my general Contention. Ii is brilliantly encapsulated in the remark of Frances Hal in v i e t n a m general West Moreland was playing chess while his enemy was playing go go the japanese name for a chinese game which like chess is a game of t Jiel i is and St a i 11 must i imagine be a Tion much debated in staff colleges in the ., As it is a question thai occurs to tin Lay mind How was in that an army s u Peri o r in numbers and weapons with sophisticated technology and presumed superiority in the theory of War never beyond stalemate with its opponents i have spoken of chinese history and thought in grossly Broad and with a 1 in o s t impertinent Over implication. The great themes i have mentioned need Ami Tut one is More aware of this than myself sustained examination and Rei Lection Wilh All the re sources of disciplined humanistic is molars lip and a so Phil scaled s o c i a 1 science Lizul 1 do so Falite do Mieux. Despite h r a v o beginnings. Mich studies barely exist and tin times do nut allow for delay. My academic credentials Are no lined to the area of the chinese language and to literature. But during Lac second world War i Wilh some of my american Aca d e m i e colleagues served Brief terms As conscript diplomats. Some of the baneful consequences of ignorance a n d misunderstanding of China were evident to us Mien. This knowledge has Given added impetus and purpose Lii our academic Stu Dies. But Tot we have Wii pcs cd Lac disastrous consequences for world peace of such ignorance and misunderstanding since. In is Wilh this sense of concern As much that of n As of a scholar that i feel the compulsion to plead for an understanding of China. Thai compulsion would be. Compel Ling on intellectual terms if China were still at her nine Lecynth Century Nadir. H is doubly compelling now thai China is in her Twenty old Cen Lury Ascendancy. W. A. C. His pro lessor of chinese a Mir University of Toronto. 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