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A foreign lady friend of mine once wrote and asked me whether it is true that we Chinese believe, like the Mohamedans, that a woman has no soul. I wr… - Gu Hongming
" "A foreign lady friend of mine once wrote and asked me whether it is true that we Chinese believe, like the Mohamedans, that a woman has no soul. I wrote back and told her that we Chinese do not hold that a woman has no soul, but that we hold that a woman,—a true Chinese woman has no self.
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About Gu Hongming
Gu Hongming, in his time known as Ku Hung-ming (18 July 1857 – 30 April 1928) was a Chinese thinker and man of letters. Famous for his knowledge of the English language and Western civilization, he however voiced an opposition to reforms of the Chinese society.
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Alternative Names:
Ku Hung-ming
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Amoy Ku
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Gu Tangsheng
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han bin du yi
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gu xia men
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hong ming
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amoy ku
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guo xue guan jun
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li cheng
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dong xi nan bei zhi ren
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han bin du yi zhe
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yong ren
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[T]he honour of a woman,— a true woman in China, is not only to love and be true to her husband, but to live absolutely, selflessly for him, In fact, this Religion of Selflessness is the religion of the woman, especially, the gentlewoman or lady in China, as the Religion of Loyalty which I have tried elsewhere to explain, is the religion of the man, — the gentleman in China.
[S]poken or colloquial Chinese is [...] in fact the language of a child. Now as a proof of this, we all know how easily European children learn colloquial or spoken Chinese, while learned philogues and sinologues insist in saying that Chinese is so difficult. Chinese, colloquial Chinese, I say again is the language of a child. My first advice therefore to my foreign friends who want to learn Chinese is "Be ye like little children, you will then not only enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but you will also be able to learn Chinese."
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