Show tsai tells of dawn 1 of chinese renaissance beginning with the eighteenth century chinese scholars began to interest themselves widely in the origin of language and to in Il history letory and archeology archaeology arche their methods were identical with those adopted by european sa says Y P tsal tsai in la revue bleue this constituted tho the dawn of the renaissance in my country but ng its the natural sciences were still unknown the field of intellectual interest was still narrow it Is only within mhd last thirty years that hidnas Clil nas scholars educated in their ow own n country or in europe or america have brought temporary european culture to their country this has wrought a revolutionary change in our was ways a of thinking comparable with that which followed nearly twenty centuries ago the introduction tro of hindu adu philosophy we have been affected as E europe was by its contact with arab civilization we are still in the first stages of a chinese renaissance at present not only our bouc intellectual leaders but our merchants and manufacturers rs in a word all the thinking classes of the nation are busily mastering western thought and revising and amending our ancient doctrines and arts so as to accommodate them to the present age |