CHAPTER XXVII

_FOREIGN BLOOD_

_Resume_ of Chinese historical development--General lines of

Chinese advance--Methods of Chinese colonization--Equal pedigree

claims of half-Chinese states--Tsin and Ts'i were even more

ancient than orthodox China--Degree of foreignness in Ts'u-Ts'u

native words and music--Ts'u peculiarities-Succession laws in Ts'u

and Lu compared--Further evidence of Ts'u's foreign ways--Beards--

Titles, posthumous and other--Ts'u admits her own savagery--Ts'u's

claim to the Nine Tripods--Ts'u and the Chou rites--Ts'u's gradual

civilization--Confucius' admiration of Ts'u--Confucius' style in

speaking of barbarians--Distinction between "beat" and "battle"--

German distinctions of rank compared with Chinese--The historical

honour of "naming"--Vagueness of testimony and the way to test

evidence.

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