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0055	Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1

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Among the Celestials : vol.1

天の間で : vol.1

race, who hate strangers, and take little trouble
to disguise their feelings. But when one can
see Chinese gentlemen at home, one modifies
this first impression very considerably; and
personally, from this and other occasions on
which I afterwards had opportunities of meeting
Chinese gentlemen, I saw much to admire and
even to like in them.

I liked their never-failing politeness to one
another, which seemed to me too incessant
and sustained to be mere veneer, and to
indicate a real feeling of regard for one
another. Then, again, their cheeriness is a
trait which one likes. The general impres-
sion among Europeans is that Chinamen are
cold, hard creatures who have not a laugh in
them. As a matter of fact, they have plenty
of heartiness and joviality when they care to
indulge in it. I should say, too, that their
conversation is good; it is certainly bright, and
it is natural and well sustained. In conversation
with Europeans they do not excel; they are
lamentably ignorant of geography, for instance,
and they often annoy the stranger by asking
if his country is tributary to China. But in the
conversation carried on amongst themselves

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