The Awakening of China

China's period of isolation is over. To understand its future, look to its recent past. A century ago, China was considered a theatre of the greatest movement taking place on the face of the globe. Efforts of all other developing nations shrink to insignificance - for it was not political, but social. Its object was not a changed dynasty, nor a revolution in the form of government, but the promise of nothing short of the complete renovation of the oldest, most populous, and most conservative of empires. Is there a people in either hemisphere that can afford to look on with indifference to the development of China? These words still ring true all these decades later.

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