Date Posted:09:41:28 04/18/07 Wed Author: vit Subject: Talking about the shame of imperialistic invasion
Talking about the shame of imperialistic invasion, well, I can・t think of any plausible reasons that could be termed as fair and right just enough to be excusable, no matter how it is explicable by historians.
Further annoyed, let・s take a look from the book, East and West, written by the then Governor of Hong Kong, Mr. Chris Patten:
：As for western shame, well, imperialistic expansion, the nineteenth-century attempt to carve up China, the treaty ports (mainland trading bases won by force from China), Hong Kong, opium and all that, are beyond excuse in twentieth-century terms, even if they are explicable by historians. But is not part of the shame, so far as Chinese nationalists are concerned, that Chinese people flocked to the treaty ports and that Hong Kong was a huge Chinese success under a British Flag?；
I give myself up to argue about that word ：expansion；, taking into account that invasion is not a speakable diplomatic word to be uttered by someone who considers as proud as a turkey in leading the multitude of one・s nation. Besides, arguable word between two nations requires to be armed to the teeth or the less strength is doomed to cost an arm and a leg.
But, I am curious is there any other forced treaty port could be coined, judging from Briton experience of expansion, as a success under a British Flag?
I have only to point out that that word ：well； is really not this good. May be it is trivia, one should not take it as a serious matter. And if you really think so! Humbly, may I urge you to recite the sentences once again with your heart, and then if you still insist that the word ：well； is but only a trivial interjection and feel not a bit of varying intonation, it is not only kind of taking something as nothing happened, but also sort of like saying: well, I don・t care! Well, what should I say?
Well, say I nothing.
Epilogue
The content, in reading the above mentioned book for searching the integrity of democracy from the idea of the west, is definitely not diminished in any extent by some trivial words or well considered intonation.
And while reading the following, it is not easy to restrain the reminiscence not to arouse emotion of tenderness by these touching words
：I spend my three years at Oxford enjoying myself in a rather
cautious, laid-back way. I half-heartedly pursued a girl, did enough work to fail to get a First, acted a bit, played a few games, slept a lot. I made no mark on Oxford, and Oxford・s main mark on me was the later realization of all that I missed；
Well, but don・t ever trust our once beloved Governor slept a lot. Those slept a lot at Oxford would have failed already.
