W A YS T H AT A RE /- WAYS T H AT ARE DARK The Truth About China By RALPH TOWNSEND THE BARNES REVIEW 130 THIRD STREET, SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON, D.C. 20003 SECOND EDITION First printing, June 1997 Second printing, July 1997 Tiiird printing, December 1997 MANUFACrUREi:) IN 'I HE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1997 Which I wish to remark. And my language is plain That for ways that are dark And tricks that are vain. The heathen Chinese is peculiar Which the same I would rise to explain. BRET HARTE PUBUSHER'S FOREWORD Y ou ASK WHY this book, two-thirds of a cenniry old, should be brought to life again? Of course, it is because the issue it addresses—China—is even more important today than it was in 1933. Yes, this is a notable book and you will learn a lot from it if you are open minded. The distinguished author's reasons for writing Ways Wat Are Dark 64 years ago are fully explained in his "IDENnFICAnON," which fol lows. And the reasons he gives might as well be written today, they arc so timely. Townsend wrote before the communist era. During the past five decades the Chinese Reds have murdered some 100 million of their own people by shooting, hanging, stomping, dragging, squashing, sawing, slicing or starving them to death. This toll, which indias the Marxist-Leninist political system, more broadly indicts Chinese culture itself because the rulers of China for fifty centuries have always freely murdered and tortured their hapless subjeas. As Townsend says, "the reader will see four hundred million [now over one billion] people— one-fifth of the world's people—engulfed in misery." But, like it or not, China is a major player in the world today and so will it remain not only for the next 64 years but into the unknowable future. And there is no reason to believe that China will change, none at all, in spite of the most intense exertions of our world-improvers armed with bales of your tax money. Clearly, Ralph Townsend was not favorably impressed by the Chinese. This is evident on almost every page. If you are a member of the Multiculturalist Church you will findt his book decidedly incor rect politically, hateful and contrary to your catechism and you will wish to excommunicate Townsend and add him to your index of the banned. If you are more rational than these Faithful newspeakers you will still find it contrary to virtually everything you think you know. And you just may be open minded enough to soberly consider the information you find and its significance. The question you will ask is, "Can China change?" This question actually means, "Can the benighted and inferior Chinese race ever attain to our own exalted level of Christian-liberal 'democracy'?" It is ironic that those White liberals and internationalists who are the most vocal in their protestations of fervent love for their fellow F O R E W O RD man, and their violent hatred of non-worshippers of their icon of racial equality ironically are the very ones who hypocritically want to change alien races and cultures into their own image. But no one has the right to even attempt this. Those who wish to change or pervert other cultures arc the worst sort of troublemaker and are only doing the work of the drcgs of society, the international plutocrats who profit from imperialism and war. No matter how alien, strange, brutal or unenlightened another culturc may appear to the illumined ones, they are dangerous fools if they try to play God with the mores of aliens. A mature understanding of this verity and a strict observance of a "hands ofT policy would automatically eliminate most of the troubles of this suffering world. The road to the hell of today has been com pulsively paved with the good intentions of generations of Western meddlers and self-righteous busybodies. But then, wars arc always good business in our magnificent capitalist society, so I suppose I shouldn't complain. It is today's obsession to label anyone, no matter how rcsponsible, who seeks to point out cultural differences as a "racist." Did Ralph Townsend "hate" the Chinese because of "the color of their skin," to use a cliche? Or was he just honest enough to describe their cultural differences with us—we White Europeans? When the day comes that an intelligent man cannot describe faaual differences between peo ples, thought control will have reached its apex. Tragically, that day is not far off in America and may have already arrived in many White nations, such as Canada, Britain, France, Holland and Australia. Significantly, Townsend did not have the same opinion of the Japanese as he did their more numerous racial brothers, the Chinese. In fact, he thought highly of Japanese culture, so opposite in many sig nificant respeas to the Chinese. His reasons are something else you will find very interesting in this book. One final thing. Ralph Townsend was not only a profound, gen uinely courageous and painfully honest writer, he was also a very good one, as you will soon see. —WA. CARTO San Diego 1997 CONTENTS VkCZ IDENTIFICATION vii I. THE SCENE 3 n. PADDIES AND PARADOXES 27 in. THE REAL CHINESE 47 ly. TALENTS AND BACKGROUND 81 V. PILGRIMS WrmouT PROGRESS 121 VI. THE MISSIONARY MIND 160 VH. THE EQUILIBRIUM OF CHAOS 199 Vm. OPIUM 248 IX. JAPAN AND THE CHINESE 271 X. AMERICA, THE FAR EAST AND THE FITTURE • • • • 395 INDEX 333