[分享] 李鴻章對台灣的看法

[cita (真男人Tommasi!)]

下面話出自" memoirs of Li Hung Chang"(1913)

書是節錄自他的日記跟手稿。

在台灣割讓給日本時，李鴻章代表清朝與日本簽訂馬關條約，

割讓台灣的時候，李鴻章心裡還蠻高興的～～

這是他對台灣的看法：

Formosan are neither of us nor with us, and we raise all the ancestors

that this is so! In Asia, in all the world, I believe there are no tribes

of animals called men more degraded and filthy than these people of

Taiwan. And have we not enough of criminals and low creatures to deal with

on the mainland? These people are not farmers, they are no hill-men, nor

hunters of wild beasts whose skins bring in money and keep men's bodies

warm in the cold winters. No, they are not even fit to be soldiers in

trained armies, for they have no discipline, nor could they be taught.

Neither would they make good sailors on regular ships though many of the

coastmen are good enough as wild pirates and buccaneers of the sea. They

are cut-throats, all of them, along the coasts and back into the jungles.

And so they have been from the days of Chia-Ch'ing to the present time.

No, they are not all even of so good a class as that! For what are opium

smokers, head-hunters and filthy lepers.....A very large number of these

people are opium users of the lowerst kind, and those who do not use this

hellish concoction only abstain from it because it is not within their

power or means to obtain that dirtiest of evil drugs.(268)

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然後...不好意思...這才是我的目的--

請問黃色部份是甚麼意思呢？

感覺上下文意思不太對得起來耶....
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