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The old China, with its charming pergolas and interesting pagodas, is being forced to travel on the road to extinction. The old China honoured a philosopher like Lao Tzu by naming a beautiful flower after his eyebrows, but the new China despises his "unpractical mysticism."

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 4 : China, Japan, Tibet > # 13