Liang Ch‘i-ch‘ao, Gems of Chinese Literature — My Country… (1922)
“ But my country, the Middle State, the Flowery Land, stands proudly alone, having survived, in one unbroken line, ever increasing in size and brilliancy, down to the present day. And in the future it will spread into a myriad branches, to be fused together in one furnace. Ah, beautiful is my country! ”
Liang Ch‘i-ch‘ao, Gems of Chinese Literature — My Country… (1922)
“ THE greatest country in the greatest of the five continents of the world,―which is it? My country, the Middle State, the Flowery Land! The people who number one-third of the human race,―who are they? My countrymen of the Middle State, the Flowery Land! Annals which extend back without a break for over four thousand years,―of what country are these? Of my country, the Middle State, the Flowery Land! My country contains four hundred million inhabitants, who all speak what is fundamentally the same language, and use the same script: of no other country can this be said. ”
