ABSTRACT
This chapter refers to the European War as the turning point in the history of the East's and West's perception of each other. The American and French revolutions and the political reforms in Britain, demonstrating the rationality of a new political philosophy and the superiority of new forms of political practice, drastically changed the Western view of China. The 'type of foreigners' in perpetual revolt against Europe were mostly, but not all, Bolsheviks who stirred up and made use of Chinese radicalism. The year 1925 and the appearance of a virulent new form of nationalism and radicalism in China marked the beginning of rethinking in the West. Chinese language being simple, they were people of few words, but they had a well-developed judicial system which needed neither torture nor threat to arrive at a fair judgement. The image of the West therefore underwent another radical change.
