Some Roads Towards Peace: A Report to the Trustees of the Endowment, on Observations Made in China and Japan in 1912 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In China and Japan it was a necessary part of my work to make public addresses; but one who cannot speak Chinese or Japanese is always at a grave disadvantage in addressing Chinese or Japanese audiences, however cultivated. A large part of his audience will be unable to understand English; and even if an interpreter is employed, it is doubtful if the interpretation, however prompt and skilful, will give a thoroughly correct idea of the speaker's utterances. In many cases I was assured by listeners who understood both English and Chinese or Japanese that my meaning had not been perfectly conveyed to the native audience. Moreover, hasty versions or summaries of speeches in English made for the local newspapers are inevitably even more inaccurate than those ordinarily made in the United States by reporters who can only write longhand. These difficulties will always attend the use of a lecture method by English speaking lecturers in either China or Japan; and yet English is far the best European language in which to attempt communication with Orientals. For this reason the Western mind will, in general, get better access to the Oriental mind through print than through speech, - through books, periodicals, and newspapers in the Western languages, and through carefully prepared translations of West ern writings into Chinese and Japanese. This principle, of course, does not apply to highly educated Orientals who understand English, nor to intercourse through conversation in which address and personal quality tell.

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