Note 105 — INLEIDING.

“Like the Japanese, and all the nations of eastern Asia, the Coreans have always bowed down before the greatly superior mental power of the Chinese; and have borrowed from them some of their customs, more of their words, and, perhaps, all the principal books in use between the Yaloo and the western shores of the Pacific” (Ross, History of Corea, bl. 300).—“Whatever note-worthy knowledge the Japanese and other nations possess, they obtained from China, while she has always been self-contained” (Ross, the Manchus (1891) bl. XV). Vgl. J. S. Gale, The influence of China upon Korea (Transactions Korea Branch R. A. S. I, bl. 1–24) en H. B. Hulbert, Korean Survivals (Id. bl. 25–50).