1134 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 
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DRAGON NING-PO: CHINA 
“China is a vast democracy under nominal control or surveillance of a liberal despotism 
in the form of the Manchu imperial house, its liberality representing the wisdom of the 
Manchus in acquiescing in the self-governing disposition of the Chinese, and the despotism 
representing the ferocity that ages of civilization have not educated from the Asians in the 
Chinese Empire, the nearly total weight of whom is Chinese” (see page 1126). 
