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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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“... work in
Anhwei and North Kiangsu.
Irri ation majr irrigation projects have been
2 completed; one under direction of the China
International Famine Relief Committee in the Satochou
area of Mongolia, carries water forty-three miles from the
Yellow River to fertilize 2,000,000 mou (a mou is one-sixth
of an acre) of heretofore arid land. The other, carried
out and paid for by the Fukien provincial government
along the Min River between Foochow and the sea has
already benefitted 60,000 mou of land and will include
40,000 mou more. Reports say the increased yield for the
first year from this project alone was 233,000 piculs of
rice. (A picul is 133 1/3 pounds).
During the past year the province of Che-
Reconstruction kiang /aised, Ioan f ^ex. $10,000,000
secured on land surtaxes, for an ambitious
program of construction which includes the following...”
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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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“...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 at ten dollars the book is cheap. It is valuable
and will have an increasing value to all interested in this
very present subject of extrality and its approaching
abolition.
Treaties Foundation for International
Peace, International Law division, has this
year been responsible for an exceedingly valuable book....”
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“...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 book about the
problems of...”
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