The Golden Wing

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Excerpt from The Golden Wing: A Sociological Study of Chinese Familism

How could two households, which were once of equal) standing, have been so transformed by two entirely different fates within only a little more than a score of years How could it be I'have been told by many persons that the rise and fall of a family is determined by the good and evil of wind and water Human will is nothing against the force of fate and fortune. Must I believe this P Certainly not, for I am an educated man, who must take his truth from life and not from fairy-tales. Then what is the truth?

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