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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
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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
