In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

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.

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.