CHINA’S POPULATION

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14023, 28 March 1919, Page 2

CHINA’S POPULATION

It lias boon said of China’s extensive population that they form “a sea that salts all water that ilows into it.” Conquest after conquest, alternating with native ruic, has swept over the country, only to be absorbed and eventually displaced. It is now contended by Chinese scholars that if they submit to the Japanese it will mean, not the destruction of China, but the absorption of Japan. Nevertheless, the Chinese people, like other races, have never been content with foreign domination. After a century and a-haif of Mongol rule, they set up again a dynasty of their own, the Ming, which ruled until 1662, when a new invasion from the north, that of the Manchus, conquered their capital city and soon controlled the Empire, and ruled down to the present day. Bui, like the Mongols, it was the Manchus who he. came Chinese, and not the reverse; and with little effort, in 1910, the Chinese were able to set up again a government of their own, known as a Republic.