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Show of value and worth was graciously given the untutore Japanese by the cultured Chinese. Many centuries later Europeand America gave to Japan her understanding o mass produdion,industrial strife,and modern militarism The beautiful and noble things that are still possessed b the Japanese, and which will always be rightfully cher ished and honoured everywhere, were the direct result o Chinese influence; but, many of the most dreaded an obnoxious qualities of modern Japan, despised in bot the Orient and the Occident, came through intercours with Europe and America In the more than thirty-five years that I have been assembling material relative to papermaking the complet life of this ancient industry has been transformed. Man papermaking centers that T have visited in years past an about which I have written, exist no longer. T am grateful for having had the privilege of seeing thisage-old craf practiced in man remote parts of the world,-before th handmade paper industry becomes entirely eliminate through the introdudion of the prosaic, although neces sary, paper-machine. In Indo-China it will not be lon until the making of paper by hand is totally supersede by the machine; perhaps even to-day nothing remains i Tonkin and Annam n(rhe ancient craftas it was carrie on at the time of t Nuthmg has been heard fro my papermaking friends in Yén-Thai and Lang-Buo since my sojourn with these lowly people in 193 5 D. H., Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A May fifteenth memxly Digtal image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |