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Townsend’s work sets out to provide direct, unvarnished information about China and the Chinese, explicitly rejecting attempts to soften harsh revelations with compensating virtues. The introduction frames China’s recent conditions as part of a vast, multi-layered human tragedy involving political, social, and economic suffering. It emphasizes realism over sentiment, arguing that understanding requires grasping the intense misery endured by most of the population and recognizing how these realities threaten broader futures, including Western interests.","WAY S T H AT A R E D A R K  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nWays That Are Dark The Truth About China  \nby Ralph M. Townsend  \nfirst published in 1933  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nWhich I wish to remark,  \nAnd my language is plain That for ways that are dark And tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar,  \nWhich the same I would rise to explain.  \n—BRET HARTE  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nIdentification  \n1. The Scene  \n2. Paddies and Paradoxes  \n3. The Real Chinese  \n4. Talents and Background  \n5. Pilgrims without Progress  \n6. The Missionary Mind  \n7. The Equilibrium of Chaos  \n8. Opium  \n9. Japan and the Chinese  \n10. America, the Far East and the Future  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIdentification  \nTHIS book on China and the Chinese will contain no apologies. It will present no strenuous effort, where uncomplimentary revelations are made, to drag in some supposedly extenuating or counterbalancing virtue possessed by the people whose actions and attitudes are under review in the pages to follow. We have had enough of all that. Too many otherwise worth-while books dealing with China have muddled their information and left their readers confused by fatuous attempts to sprinkle bright hopes over dark facts.  \nAnd there has been of late a superabundance of maudlin sentiment about China in comparison with the scarcity of clear-cut information. This book is intended to supply information. If reading it requires at times a strong stomach, this book at least is an honest attempt to present the facts as they are, however unpleasant. An accurate survey of what is now going onin China necessarily includes much that is hideous and terrible, for the simple reason that a great deal of what the Chinese are doing is hideous and terrible. An understanding of recent developments there is impossible without an intimate appreciation of the staggering misery gripping the majority of the population—a fifth of the earth’s people struggling helplessly and meaninglessly against fate and themselves. The many aspects, political, social and economic, of the tragedy are but so many varied hues in a single spectroscope of distress, its focus upon a scene of misery vast beyond the dimensions of human pity.  \nYet the very vastness of the spectacle places some obligation upon us rationally and emotionally to understand its intricacies, to understand the  \nmany conflicting frenzies of attempted survival there which paradoxically produce in the total a strange inertia. China for fifty centuries has moved glacier-like, ponderously and slowly, without serious deflection at any time, ever gathering its weight of population, ever settling towards its obscure destiny, its masses ever increasingly crushed by their own pressure upon themselves. That destiny, as manifest in the lot of the average Chinese there, more and more ominous and intolerable with the accumulated centuries, unfailingly appalls the thinking Westerner who gazes upon it. Though the average American can look at the China scene with detachment and aloof from its colossal tragedy, there are ways, vivid and real, in which it menaces our own future, and to avoid these dangers it is important to understand its peculiar features.  \nThis last consideration calls for a new note of realism in our survey of China. For our own welfare and the best permanent interests of all concerned, the situation calls for a sterner realism than that to which we have been accustomed, in order to view and to accept the facts as they are. The facts are repellent. But they exist, and we dwell in the same small world with them. Nothing useful can be accomplished by attempting to cover them up.  \nDespite the amount that has been recently written and spoken on the subject, China remains incomprehensible for most American readers. In appraising a stranger with whom we are to deal, it is important to know his shortcomings. 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