[saih-promo2002] nged illnes

[Maraia Jameel]

M which the Chinese migrated to the land where they are now
found. The Chinese possess authentic records
of an indisputably early past, but throughout these
records there is absolutely no mention, not even a hint, of any
migration
of the kind. Tradition places the Golden Age of China so far back as
three thousand years before Christ; for a sober survey of China's early

civilization, it is not necessary to push further back than the tenth
century
B.C. We shall find evidence of such an advanced state of civilization at
that later date as to leave no doubt of a very remote antiquity. The
China of those days, known even then as the Middle Kingdom, was a mere
patch on the empire of to-day. It lay, almost lozenge-shaped,
between the 34th and 40th parallels of latitude north, with the upper
point of the lozenge resting on the modern Peking, and the lower on
Si-an Fu in Shensi, whither the late Empress Dowager fled
for safety during the Boxer rising in 1900. The ancient autocratic
Imperial system had recently been disestablished, and a feudal system
had taken its place. The country was divided up into a number of vassal
states of varying size and importance, ruled each by its own baron, who
swore allegiance to the sovereign of the Royal State.
The relations, however, which came to subsist, as time went on, between
these
states, sovereign and vassal alike, as described in contemporary annals,
often remind the reader of the relations which prevailed between the
various political divisions of ancient Greece. The rivalries of Athens
and Sparta, whose capitals were only one hundred and fifty miles
apart--though a perusal of Thucydides makes

one feel that at least half the wo
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