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 of foreign contact and influence than has North China. From South China have gone most of China's emigrants; and from these emigrants there has come back into China a steady stream of agitation and funds for revolutionary enterprises. South China has been the birthplace of most of the revolutions of the Chinese against their Rulers, and in South China the spirit of revolt is most acute today.

But it should not be thought that the Kuo Min Party and the South are alone indoctrinated with the ideas of revolt which are becoming daily more and more manifest in China. Chinese everywhere have shown during the past ten years increasing signs of a developing national self-consciousness. Ten years ago one heard in the foreign "concessions" a general damning of the Chinese as a people possessed of no patriotism. Today one hears in the same places a general damning of Chinese nationalism. There is unquestionably developing in China that conception of national interests and national rights which is called "patriotism." Not every Chinese, not one in ten, perhaps not one in a hundred, has what we would call a "consciousness" or even an opinion with regard to political questions. The "public" consists of at most a few million citizens, those who either are educated or possess substantial means or wield military power. These constitute articulate China. Politically speaking, they are the nation. Their number is sufficient to constitute what would be a considerable body politic in any state. Among them there is develop-