PRESENT CONDITIONS IN CHINA 
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A GENERAL OFFICIAL OF INTERIOR CHINA, NAVAL MANDARIN (ADMIRAL Oi “4hisiip, 
RIVER FLEET), WIFE AND DAUGHTER: HANKAU 
“Dr. W. A. P. Martin, the most famous of living sinologues, aptly characterized China 
as Chinese when he exclaimed: ‘China is not a power; China is an old ash-barrel, held 
together by the powers, and with a hen inside—goose if you will—sitting on golden eggs.’ 
As between the Chinese ash-barrel and the Manchu goose, there is some choice and it is not 
disadvantageous to the Manchus” (see pages 1123 and 1135). 
