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“...constructive accomplishments in this field.
Telephones Until recently telephone service in China
has been limited to a few of the largest cities,
and even where it existed at all, it was inadequate and
inefficient. Long distance service was practically nil.
Within the past two or three years this type of service has
been receiving constructive attention. Several cities are
installing automatic services, including Shanghai, Han-
kow, Changchun and Mukden. The automatic system in
Nanking has been completed and is working perfectly. A
new exchange in Mukden is ready for operation, with a
capacity of 5,000 automatic telephones. Long distance
service has been established between Peiping and Harbin;
Nanking and Shanghai; Tientsin and Chinwangtao; and
during 1931 is to be completed between Canton and Hong
kong. These accomplishments, though as yet few in
comparison with the size and population of China, are
significant because of the great deal done in the short
time since use of the telephone...”
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“...harbors: irrigation
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world the best of broadcast programs that China can offer.
A 20 K.W. plant at Chenju, near Shanghai, was inaugu-
atecl in December, 1930, for European and American traffic.
Since the first of August, 1 929, all wireless projects have
been put under the control of the Ministry of Communi-
cations.
Of three huge harbor developments that are
Pr ects proposed, one is already under way at Hulu-
tao, on the Gulf of Liaotung, work having
begun in April, 1930, and is to be completed in five years,
at a cost of more than Gold $6,000,000. The harbor will
have a capacity for accommodating at least 100 steamers
and a berthing line of 8,800 feet. The Yangtze River
Conservancy Board under the Ministry of Communications
is surveying the Yangtze River through its whole length,
as a part of the scheme for improving the river by
embankments, dams, bridges, dredging the channel, and
opening tributaries. Similar work is under way in the
Hwai River Valley as a part of the conservancy...”
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“...by the large landholdings of
certain of the temples and monasteries. In this respect the
situation is somewhat like that prevailing in England in the
sixteenth century and more recently in Russia and Mexico.
A just and equitable solution of the problem involved here-
in constitutes a real challenge to the leaders of the Party
and the Government. The question of the taxation of prop-
erty that is used for religious purposes is also one that will
have to be settled. At present such property in China, as
in the West, is usually exempt from taxation. Whether
this policy will continue or whether it will be changed, time
only will tell. The Government would, of course, be quite
within its rights in taxing property used for religious pur-
poses if it desired to do so.
, We have now completed our study of the
Tradit^n1^ attitude of the Party towards religion^ We
Liberal have seen that the Kuomintang tradition is
essentially liberal, favoring religious freedom.
For a time this liberalism was obscured...”
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“...religious toleration
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religion, if it be of a worthy and vital sort, will not merely
be tolerated, but will indeed be positively welcomed by
discerning spirits as an ally in the building up of the New
China. Mistrust may linger, and indifference will continue,
but as of old, those who have 4'ears to hear" will hear.
Church and State will be separate, as religion and education
are likely to continue largely to be, but freedom of belief,
coupled with the other great rights of assembly, organiza-
tion, speech, press, and residence, will, when these are
realized, be quite sufficient to give Christianity all the op-
portunity it needs to make its contribution to the life of the
nation....”
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“..."Tortured China" is a book that
all students of Chinese affairs will want to read. Mr.
Abend, a newspaper correspondent, has collected much
data regarding China and events here during the past few
years. His book has not the scholarship nor the thought
that went into the making of Mr. Peffer's masterly
analysis and Mr. Abend cannot forego the temptation of
drawing conclusions and offering patent medicines. He
demands immediate and effective foreign intervention,
which long ago faded out of the realm of possibilities.
Civil Code year was rotable for the publication
in English of the lengthy civil code of the
Republic of China, which has been ably translated by
three Chinese legal experts, Dr. C. L. Hsia, Mr. James
L. E. Chow and Mr. Yukon Chang. It consists of trans-
lations of three books, General Principales, Obligations,
and Rights Over Things, the body of law drafted for and
adopted by the National Government in its strenuous
efforts to secure the abolition of extrality in China.
Published...”
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“...fiction
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It is "Treaties with and Concerning China 1919-1929."
This book forms a supplement to the standard work on
treaties with and concerning China by Mr. J. van A.
MacMurray, lately United States Minister to China.
Finances Anancia^y minded the Bank of
China has compiled a useful little book in
"Chinese Government Loan Issues and Foreign Obliga-
tions." It contains all the information that can be
required-about this involved and complicated subject.
Sun Yat-sen "The Legacy of Sun Yat-sen," is a history
of the Chinese revolution by a German. It
records the facts with the accuracy, lucidity and impar-
tiality of a detached student of international affairs.
"The Sino-Foreign Treaties of 1928"'contain the various
treaties Dr. C. T. Wang negotiated that year with foreign
powers upon a basis of equality. It forms a mile-stone
along the road that leads us towards the relinquishment of
extrality rights in China.
In "The Restless Pacific," Mr. Nicholas
Problems Roosevelt has written a timely...”
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