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“...THE CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK BEING "The Christian Movement in China" 1911 ^ \ EDITED BY V D. MacGILL)VRAY, M.A., D.D., Editor of A Century of Missions in China," Author of a Mandarin=Romanized Dictionary of Chinese " etc. etc. fri wm it SHANGHAI CHRISTIAN LITERATURE SOCIETY FOR CHINA 1911...”
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“...several friends, the papers promised by them for 1911 were not forthcoming. At the time of printing, however, it was found that there was not space enough to include all the chapters which had been received and so the following had to be omitted. " Concerning Chinese Hymnology." " The Hymns of the Chinese Christian Church." " The Ideal Translation of the Bible into Chinese." ''The Work of Anglican, Canadian and American Episcopal Church Missions in China." " Learning the Chinese Language.'' "The C. I. M. Language Schools." " Physical Training in China." Some or all of these will be inserted in the Year Book for 1912. In the Index of the present Volume reference is made to all the special chapters in the Year Book for 1910, such references being followed by the figures 10 in heavy type. We have profited by suggestions and criticisms and hope for more....”
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“...11 preface. I am specially pleased to announce that during my furlough the Year Book for 1912 will be prepared by the very competent hands of the Rev. G. H. Bondfield, the well-known Secretary of the Centenary Conference of 1907, and Agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society in China and the Philippines. D. MacGillivray....”
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“...Schools .........104-111 The Story of Shansi University ........................111-116 Chapter VI. I. What Chinese Students are Reading J. S. Burgess 117-126 II. "What Chinese Young Men are Thinking About A Chinese Student 127-132 Chapter VII. Problems of Educational Work in China F. L. H. Pott 133-150 SupplementEducational Notes............151-153 Chapter VIII. University Missions in China B. Upward 154-161 Chapter IX. Medical Missionary Association of China Editor 162-164 The Margaret Williamson Hospital E. Reifsnyder 164-172 Chapter X. Reaching the Higher Classes. Science Work in Chengtu, Szechuen. W. Wilson 173-180 Chapter XI. Present Problems of the Chinese Church J. C. Gibson 181-188 SupplementUnion Bodies in China ..................188-189 Chapter XII. The Chinese Student Volunteer Movement for the Ministry ...... W. B. Pettus 190-192...”
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“...Formosa W. Campbell 223-227 The North Formosa Mission, by a Committee of Presby- tery ............ ...... ... 228-232 Chapter XVII. Work in the Kwangtung Province H. Y. Noyes 233-242 Chapter XVIII. The Jubilee of a Mission G. T. Candlin 243-256 Chapter XIX. The Work of German Missions in China H. Hermann 257-278 Chapter XX. The Work of The China Inland Mission M. Broomhall 279-286 Chapter XXI. Work of Scandinavian Missions in China Chapter XXII. Work of the Missions, Chiefly Evangelistic 295-352 Chapter XXIII. Work Among the Moslems in China ... 353-354 Chapter XXIV. The Opinions of Evangelistic Workers... 355-367 Supplement2nd Meeting of the Evangelistic Association 368-372 Chapter XXV. The Tract Societies in China. J. Darroch 373-380 A. Fleischer 287-294 A. B. F. M. S. A. So. B. A. B. C. F. M. A. P. M. (North) C. P. M. C. and M. A. C. S. M. 295-297 E. B. M. S, 297-301 E. P. M. 302-305 L. M. S. 305-321 M. E. So. 322-325 R. C. in A. 326-329 W. M. S. 330- 330-333 333-339 339-346 346-347 347-348...”
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“...Testament League ........................387-388 Bible Translation and Revision ......... 388-391 Chapter XXVII. The Christian Literature Society for China ... ...... ........................392-400 Chapter XXVIII. I. Sunday Schools in China J. Darroch 401-404 II. Christian Endeavour in China Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Strother 404-407 Chapter XXIX. I. Y. M. C. A. in China. C. L. Boynton 408-417 II. Tokyo Chinese Y. M. C. A. ... J. H. Wallace 417-420 Chinese Students' Union Church Tokyo. Mark Liu 421-423 III. Y. W. C. A. in China ........................423-424 Chapter XXX. Women's Work. ... ... % ... ... 425-442 L. M. S. 431-432 M. E. M. (North) 432-436 M. E. So. 436-442 A. P. M. (North) 425-428 C. and M. A. 428-429 C. S. M. 429-430 E. B. Z. M. 430-431 Chapter XXXI. Miscellaneous ........................443-459 I. International Reform Work in China E. W. Thwing 443-445 II. China's New Law Against Opium ..................445-448 III. The Oriental Society for Promoting the Christian Education of ...”
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“..."VI contents. Chapter XXXIII. The Greek Church in China O. Figourovsky 463 Chapter XXXIV. Statistics of Roman Catholic Work in China ... .................. 464-469 APPENDICES I. Memorable Dates in Chinese Missionary History II. List of Important Events ...... III. Obituaries ............... IV. List of Articles on China in Current Magazines ............... V. List of New Books ......... VI. Ten Best Books for Missionaries in China VII. Summer Resorts ............ VIII. The Census of China ......... IX. The People's Gift of Testaments to the Imperial Family ............ X. Nanyang Exhibition............ XI. Schools for Missionaries' Children...... XII. Cost of Living in China ......... XIII. Open Ports ............ XIV. Church Officials ............ Directory of Missionaries............... Statistical Table .................. Index ... ............ Page i ii-v vi-xiii xiv-xvi xvii-xx xxi-xxii xxiii-xxviii xxviii-xxxi xxxii-xxxiii xxxiv-xxxviii xxxix-xlii xliii xliv-xlvi xlvii-liii i-lxxviii...”
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“...CHAPTER L THE GENERAL SURVEY (19104911). by the editor. as Dr. Arthur H. Smith said last year,* the difficulty of comprehending China is not only not diminished, but is actually increased as compared with two decades ago. His masterly General Survey in the Year Book for 1910 is scarcely out. of date still, save on minor details, and we strongly recommend our readers to ponder again Dr. Smith's lucid and brilliant pages. The prolonged absence of Dr. Smith from China precludes his writing the survey this year, but our readers may expect that on his return he will continue to do the work, which none but he can do so well. china under the empress dowager, and after. The period of Chinese history during which Yelionala, better known as the Empress Dowager, ruled China, will always be of surpassing interest to the student of Chinese affairs. The situation of China to-day both for good and evil is largely the aftermath of those eventful times. Then as now, action and reaction, like Jaco9 and Esau...”
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“...2 china mission year book. will simply confirm previous opinions, though the wrath of of Mr. Ku Hung-ming and others burns fiercely against them and all their works. china's task. AVe would do well to recall again the weighty words of Professor Ernest D. Burton, of the University of Chicago, spoken at the Conference of Foreign Mission Boards in New York, 1910. 4'Having determined that she will emerge from the isolation which she has maintained for centuries, that she will not simply yield as she has for a hundred years to such pressure as she can not resist, bat will herself actively enter into the life of the nations and become one in the family of nations, China confronts to-day one of the greatest tasks that any nation ever faced. This is nothing less than the creation of a new civilization * * The task which China thus confronts is one of tremen- dous difficulty. Observe what is included in it. A new constitution, which means in reality a new political system; a new army, a new navjT...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. there were signs at one time that the present Empress Dowager, Lung Yu, would like to step into the shoes of her predecessor. The Regent has been too strong for her, and by the aid of his Grand Council, has at least avoided glaring- blunders. He recently proclaimed himself Generalissimo of the Army and Navy.- His various Edicts during 1910 indicate that he is doing his best, and under the circum- stances no one but a Kangsi or Chinshihhuang could have anything more to show than he has. There is much talk of welding together Manchu and Chinese, but several recent Edicts inopportunely emphasize the Manchu overlordship. During the year the Chinese Christians, as related in our Appendix, prepared four presentation copies of the New Testament, one for the Empress Dowager, one for the Prince Regent, one for the Empress Mother, and one for the Child Emperor. But as long as the eunuchs and con- cubines swarm and intrigue in the purlieus of the Palace, little improvement...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. Lord High Chancellor, £10,000; Lord President of the Council, £2,000; Lord Privy Seal, £2,000; First Lord of Treasury, £5,000; First Lord of the Admiralty, £4,500. Secretaries of State: Home Affairs, £5,000; Foreign Affairs, £5,000; Colonies, £5,000; War, £5,000; India, £5,000. Chancellor of the Exchequer, £5,000; Secretary for Scotland, £2,000; Chief Sec. to the Lord-Lieut, of Ireland, £4,425; Postmaster-General, £2,500. what is the new chinese constitution ? We are greatly indebted to Mr. L. R. O. Bevan, Pro- fessor of International Law, Shansi University, for his able resume of the new constitution in another chapter. As he says, there is a certain tentative element in this constitution, and doubtless changcs suggested by experience, or dictated by necessity may be made, but the general result of the strict carrying out of the constitution as it at present stands would be to centralise power in Peking, and greatly curtail the power of the provincial Governors...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. In Shantung, 119,549, members elected, 103. In Manchuria, 52,679, members elected, 50. In Hupeh, 113,233, members elected, 80. Of the 105 members elected in Szechuen, six only were elected under the property qualification. Christians voted freety, and in one instance the Vice-President of the Assembly is a Christian. The powers of these bodies are nominally advisory only, but with this they will not long be contented. The discus- sions were intelligent and dignified, and showed that the Government has set free an entirely unsuspected power in the land. The aim is not revolutionary, but to encourage patriotism, and strengthen the Empire. the national assembly. The first meeting of the National Assembly took place in Peking on October 4, 1910. One hundred of the mem- bers were appointed by the Government and one hundred from the various Provincial Assemblies. These bodies having tasted the new wine of power made haste to agitate for an earlier summoning of a real...”
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“...Reforms are found to be ex- pensive. The Army and Navy clamour for reorganization and large expenditure. China's Foreign indebtedness is £125,000,000,* requiring the payment of a yearly interest of Tls. C50,000,000. The Executive is at a loss-to find new means for taxation, and even taxes for the new schools have in several instances provoked riots, and the people are too ignorant to allow of the introduction of new imposts. the currency. The Year Book of 1910 recounts on page 7 the attempt of China to reform her currency. In May an Edict was published setting the standard of currency for the present in a Silver Dollar of Taels .73 weight. This Dollar was to be the sole medium for payment of taxes, etc., and other -Exclusive of the £10,000,000 loan mentioned later....”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. official liabilities. The Provincial mints were forbidden to coin any save exactly like those issued at the central mint in Peking, but. it was discovered that to inaugurate this reform a large supply of ready cash must be available, and United States, Great Britain, Germany and France offered China a loan of £10,000,000 Sterling, which will probably be arranged. These loans though much detested are now seen to be inevitable. A National Debt Redemption Society which made such a stir at first soon fizzled out. Not only did the National Debt remain unpaid, but more was added to it. At the same time the Provinces were piling up foreign loans on their own account, notwithstanding the efforts of the Central Government to get a monopoly of the foreign loan business. Many authorities counselled China to adopt the Gold standard, but this would require such an immense reserve that it is practically impossible. courts of justice. The new penal code is at last nearly ready...”
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“...for 5,300,000 scholars. Will China succeed with her forty-five millions?" At the Nanyang National Exhibition held in Nanking one immense building was filled with educational exhibits from kindergarten to University. Though these exhihits were drawn from a comparatively small number of schools, they served to show as far as material things are concerned, how far China, had advanced educationally. The drawings, embroideries, etc., were quite equal to anything seen in the West, It may be, however, that progress is disappointing. As a well iinformed writer has said: "In regard to the all-important subject of education it may be doubted whether the Empire has not retrogressed rather than broken fresh ground. Many of the schools hastily started in the early days of the reform fever are either closed or are languishing, sorry patterns of what an educational institu- tion should be. In some centres good work has been done, but in education as in other matters China lacks the motive power necessary...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. The sensation of the year was Professor Ling's speech, which we give in extenso in Chapter V. It is well sum- marised by a leading Daily Paper as follows: " Mr. Ling inveighs primarily against the lack of moral and educational discipline in Chinese Government Schools. The students, he infers, have imbibed advanced ideas without ridding themselves of the irresponsibility of youth. Doctrincs of equality and liberty, culled, we are told, from Japanese sources, have been interpreted as authorizing a general lawlessness of conduct at home, in the school and in public. The most ardent reformers in China can scarcely wish that the new order, with its many untried innovations, should altogether supplant the old virtues that have held together for so long the component parts of this heterogeneous empire. Among these filial respect lias always occupied a prominent place; but even this is threatened, according to the lecturer who took the Foochow scholars to task. In the...”
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“...books. To-day, this Press is the largest in all Asia, employing over one thousand hands, all of them Chinese except about a dozen Japanese. It is equipped with the latest and best German, English, and American machinery. It has a capital of $1,000,000, one-tliird of which is held by Japanese and two-thirds by Chinese. It uses not only Chinese paper, but stock imported from Austria, Sweden, England, and Japan, chiefly from Austria and Sweden. It has opened twenty branches in various cities of China. It is managed on the co-operative plan, sharing profits with its employees. The net profits are divided into twenty parts. Five of these are distributed among the employees, ten go to the shareholders, three to the reserve fund, and two to the schools of children of employees, to sick and injured employees and the widows and orphans of those who have died. The net profits distributed in these ways last year were $200,000 Mex......This Press now issues...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. most of the text-books used in the Government Schools and a large proportion of the bank notes which are in circula- tion.5' It has the only three colour printing plant in China. It is said, however, that anti-foreignism has began to interfere somewhat with its business. The demand for its translations from foreign works is declining, though doubt- less the school book trade is bound to increase. Printing presses are, of course, found everywhere, but they are mainly occupied in publishing newspapers. the chinese press. A series of new press laws has been issued, the object of which is to secure official control of the papers similar to that exercised by the Government in Russia. An enter- prising Taotai in Shanghai with the approval of his superiors, bought up the Shanghai vernacular papers for the sum of Taels 183,096.82 together with Tacls 34,634.56 to meet current losses. Part of this sum was paid from the interest accuring on the Huangpu Conservancy Fund...”
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“...GENERAL SURVEY. 15 3,280,000; registered articles from 19,000,000 to 25,500,000, and Money Orders to the value of $10,000,000 were transmit- ted Some 13,000 miles are covered by railways and steamers, thus leaving 87,000 to be run by couriers. China occupies the 14th place in postal operations, namely, seven articles per head as compared with America's 164 articles per head. A daily service between Lhasa and Yatung via Gyantse, India, is the latest enterprise. The telegraph lines are only slowly increasing. During last year 1915i li of lines and 22 new offices were added. A reduction of rates has been granted, but telegraphing is still to expensive for the multitude. A recent loan of £500,000 is to be devoted to extension. railways. The Ticntsin-Pukou Railway being built by foreign engineers has made rapid advance. Last year the Northern section had reached as far south as Taianfu at the base of the Sacred Mountain, while the Southern section has trains running regularly to Linhwaikuan...”
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“...1(3 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. appears that a large part of the funds for this line were lost in rubber speculation at the time of the boom in Shanghai, an accident likely to interfere with the company's operations. The Peking-Kalgan line is being extended to Tatungfu in Shansi. Some work is being clone on a line from Kiukiang to Changsha and on another from Wuhu southwards to Kuangtehchow. In Yunnan a number of surveys have been made for a line from Yunnanfu into Szechuen province. In Honan Province, the Railway from Kaifeng, which crosses the Peking-PIankow line at Chenchow, is opened to Honanfu, and work beyond the city is being pushed on. It is hoped to reach Tungchuan in the spring. The Canton-Iiankow Railway has made- some progress in Canton Province, but little is known about it. The Shangliai-Hangchow Railway, which is being built beyond Iiangchow towards Ningpo, had a bitter conflict with the Central Government during the year over loans, and Mr. Tang, the General Manager, was finally...”