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Show FOREWOR Y VISITS TO TH PAPER VILLAGE O INDO-CHINA were undertaken during the yea 193 5,and the writing of this monograph was complete while returning to America on a small freight ship. Th entire text, therefore with the exception of this foreword was compiled previous to the Japanese invasion that temporarily spread, like a plague of locusts, over a great par ofthe Far East. Since my sojourn in pensive Indo-Chin the native people have undergone additional hardships cruel humiliations have been pressed upon this humbl and submissive race. While under the domination of th Japanese aggressors, the Indo-Chinese people had eve less encouragementin the preservation of their old nativ customs than they had experienced under French rule It would have been reasonable to expeét that the Japanese, themselves fine craftsmen in the past, would have ha abundant interest in promotin the old crafts and tradi tionsof the Indo-Chinese. Sucha happy condition as this howsoever, was far from realization as the Japanese hav absorbed too many vices from the Occident for them t sponsorany return to honest craftsmanship and leisurel living, Any Asiatic country, like Indo-China, that ha the misfortune to become the prey of Westernized Japa had no chance of escaping the most sordid and deprave form of transplanted Occidental industrialism In ancient times, China gave to Japan her knowledg ofagriculture, painting, calligraphy, literature, ceramics weaving,architecture the graphicarts; in fact, everythin "Digital mage© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |
