It Is Only Through Contact And Comparison

The Sun Exactly At Noon Is Exactly [beginning To] Go Down. And A Creature When He Is Born Is Exactly [beginning To] Die.

In The Year 1915 A Series Of Trivial Incidents Led Some Chinese Students In Cornell University To Take Up The Question Of Reforming The Chinese Language.

What Is Sacred Among One People May Be Ridiculous In Another; And What Is Despised Or Rejected By One Cultural Group, May In A Different Environment Become The Cornerstone For A Great Edifice Of Strange Grandeur And Beauty.

In Such Diffused Changes Of Culture Two Factors Are Necessary: Contact And Understanding.

The Jesuits Had Learned That A Christian Mission To China Could Never Succeed If It Were Not In A Position To Show And Convince The Chinese Intelligentsia Of The Superiority Of The European Culture.