"We have now received Her Majesty's decree to devote ourselves fully to China's revitalization, to suppress vigorously the use of the terms
new and old, and to blend together the best of what is Chinese and
what is foreign. The root of China's weakness lies in harmful habits too
firmly entrenched, in rules and regulations too minutely drawn, in the
overabundance of inept and mediocre officials and in the paucity of truly
outstanding ones, in petty bureaucrats who hide behind the written word
and in clerks and yamen runners (administrative clerks) who use the
written word as talismans [an object that brings good luck] to acquire
personal fortunes, in the mountains of correspondence between government
offices that have no relationship to reality, and in the seniority system
and associated practices that block the way of men of real talent."
Qing Reform Edict, January 29, 1901
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Imagine that you have completed your paper. the following are two paragraphs you have written that contain direct quotations from your sources. below each paragraph is the source used. for each source, use mla style to create the correct in-text citation and place it in the correct place within the paragraph. gandhi did not grow up wealthy. of his family, he recalled, “my father never had any ambition to accumulate riches and left us very little property. he had no education, save that of experience.” like his father, gandhi became someone who valued experience over money. the quotation is taken from page 2 of this source: gandhi, mahatma. the story of my experiments with truth. 1927. new york: dover publications, 1983. print. gandhi’s experiences abroad taught him a great deal, but they certainly did not make him rich. according to indian scholar e.s. reddy, “…on january 9, 1915, m. k. gandhi returned to bombay after 21 years in exile, wearing a loin cloth and travelling from london in the lowest class of the ship.” few people suspected that this unassuming man would become one of the most powerful and beloved leaders in history. the quotation is taken from page 1 of this source: reddy, e.s. gandhi’s vision of a free south africa. hyderabad, india: sangam books, ltd. 1995. print.