Wang: Chinese Heredity 



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A GIANT CHINAMAN 



This man is one of two gigantic brothers who are doorkeepers at the government experiment 

 station northwest of Peking. He is very sensitive about his great size, and refused to be photo- 

 graphed, even the director's orders proving ineffective. When invited to stand for his picture with 

 the director and the American visitor the giant was too polite to refuse. The other brother is 

 somewhat shorter. While these men are of exceptional size, they nevertheless serve to remind us 

 that there are many people of no mean stature in Northern China, particularly in the district 

 in which these brothers were born. (Fig. 2.) 



informed is simply this: That "man 

 carries his bag of faults on his back"; 

 he always sees the faults of others but 

 seldom his own. 



According to the reports of the mis- 

 sionary schools in China, and to the 

 mental measurements of the Board of 

 Education of the Hawaiian Islands, the 

 average Chinese school child is just 

 as able as the American. The high 

 scholarship of the Chinese students in 

 American colleges is well known ; the 



writer had the pleasure to hear from one 

 of his professors, "My Chinese students 

 are always the best!" It is true that 

 the Chinese have not yet made any 

 great contribution to pure sciences, but 

 this is due to a lack of scientific environ- 

 ment and not due to deficiency in 

 heredity. Such prominent biologists 

 and eugenists as East, Castle, Holmes, 

 Popenoe, and Johnson have time and 

 again declared that the Chinese are by 

 no means mentally inferior to any other 



