Your search within this document for 'china' AND 'mission' AND 'year' AND 'book' resulted in 196 matching pages.

You can expand your results by searching for china OR mission OR year OR book.
 
1 Page 1

“...THE CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK BEING "The Christian Movement in China" 1910 EDITED BY D. MacGILLIVRAY, FOR THE C. L. S. SHAMII1A1: CHRISTIAN uteratlire society fom cwma 1010...”
2 Page 4

“...4 CHINA MISSION YEAJR BOOK. ery, undertook to begin a series of Year Books for China, and the present editor was requested to inaugurate the work. The thought had occurred to many minds, but the difficulty was in the execution. Japan might be manageable, but China was a vaster field. The pros- pectus frankly admitted that it might be found impos- sible to do for China what had been so well done for Japan. The imperfections of a first attempt naturally appear in the book, but we are glad to say that some 300 advance orders, given in simple faith, showed that people want such a book. We are particularly thankful to the forty or fifty able writers who have furnished the signed articles. Back of these again are the workers who gladly assisted them in their investigations. The time has come when questionnaires 011 serious subjects will receive serious attention and not lazily be thrown into the limbus of forgotten duties. The Year Book, as will be seen at a glance, totally differs from anything...”
3 Page 10

“...Vlll china mission year book. CHAPTER XXVIII.CHINESE ABROAD. G. F. Mosher. 419-424 CHAPTER XXIX.THE GREEK CHURCH. O. Figourovsky. 425-426 CHAPTER XXX.STATISTICS OF ROMAN CATHO- LIC WORK IN CHINA ............427-431 APPENDICES* I. IMPORTANT EVENTS ............Pages i-vi II. OBITUARIES........................vii-xvi III. NEW BOOKS ON CHINA............xvii-xxii IV. ARTICLES ON CHINA ............xxiii-xxvi V. ADDENDA TO "A CENTURY OF MISSIONS" ........................xxvii-xxx VI. CHURCH OFFICIALS ..................xxxi-xxxiii VII. ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY ............xxxiv VIII. CENTENARY CONFERENCE COM- MITTEE'S FINAL REPORT............xxxv-xxxvii IX. LIST OF NEW STATIONS.........xxxviii-xxxix X. HALLEY'S COMET........................xl-liii DIRECTORY OF MISSIONARIES. STATISTICAL TABLE....”
4 Page 2

“...2 CHINA MISSION YEAJR BOOK. If any "Old China hand" had been told before- hand that the Emperor and the Empress-Dowager would die within twenty-four hours of each other, yet that the succession would be quietly arranged with no sug- gestion of outward discontent, he would have smiled a knowing smile and would have outlined a much more probable line of events, but he would have been quite astray. It is no novelty in China to have long minorities in the palace, and the past hundred years has had fully its share. Yet in this instance the selection both of a new Emperor and a Regent seemed so clearly the best possible that after it became obvious that there was to be no uprising or popular clamory we seemed indeed to be entering upon a lagoon of peace, such as China had not known for more than a century. A year and a half of the rule of the Prince Regent, however, made it ob- vious that far too much had been expected from his good intentions, and that his qualifications for the diffi- cult...”
5 Page 6

“...6 CHINA MISSION YEAJR BOOK. looked for. Then may perhaps occur the fulfillment of a prophecy of one of the Taotais who accompanied H. E. Tuan Fang around the world five years since: "No nation ever yet got its liberties without shedding much blood, and China will be no exception." In the meantime popular pressure everywhere curtails and eventually extinguishes all foreign 4 4 concessions'' which can be got hold of. By this kind of combined pressure the Peking Syndicate was bought off from Shansi, and the capable official who engineered the negotiations was the most popular man of the day, and is now the efficient governor of that province. The relinquishment for a fair consideration of the claim of Sir Lister Kaye in Anhui probably marks the terminal moraine of all enterprises of this sort. The general unrest throughout China during the past year has been greatly stimulated by the widespread report (from some unknown source) that China is again oii the point of being "carved up like a melon...”
6 Page 14

“...14 CHINA MISSION YEAJR BOOK. from all restraint at an age and under conditions requir- ing very different treatment. The Shansi Provincial College, under the care of Dr. Timothy Richard, stands in a class by itself, but at the impending expiration of the ten-year period 110 one can predict under what influences it may fall. Except- ional likewise is the Tientsin University, founded by Dr. Tenney, which has a large foreign staff. The Provincial College at Paotingfu has been for more than a year and a half under the presidency of Mr. Fei Ch'i-hao, a Christian graduate of Oberlin and of Yale. Dr. Fergu- son, of Shanghai, has well pointed out one of the fatal weaknesses of government institutions in China in their divided control. '' Every school is in the hands of four sets of managers : the Board of Education, which may include the central board and a local board, the directors of the special school, the faculty, and the students. The latter by playing off against one or both of the other...”
7 Page 22

“...22 china mission year book. and of his many successors were celebrated in 1907 ; many others, because they are unknown, will never be celebrated at all. The opening and the awakening of China are not unreasonably thought by some to be the most important world events since Columbus discovered America. In contributing to these great results no agencies have been so potent as those which have accom- panied the introduction of Christianity, but as yet its real influence has only begun. Largest and most fruitful of the many tasks before the Christian church of the twentieth century is to be the uplift and the regeneration of China. Arthur H. Smith....”
8 Page 32

“...32 CHINA MISSION YEAJR BOOK. this country, and in Europe he was entrusted with the task of investigating the financial systems of the Great Powers. The significance of this appointment lies to some extent in the fact that Tang Shao-yi had been one of Yuan Shih-k'ai's henchmen, and as far as the finan- cial side of it was concerned, it was a neat move on Yuan's part to get Tang Shao-yi out of an uncongenial post at Mukden and prepare him to stand by Yuan's side as financial adviser. The very day he set out, however, an Imperial Decree was published authorizing the adoption of a standard currency 011 a tael basis, and it was believed at the time that this was Chang Chih- tung's answer to Yuan's despatch of Tang Shao-yi. The decree has never been enforced however. From this time 011 to the middle of November the Government displayed 110 great activity. On the 14th of November the Emperor Kwang Hsu passed away, and within twenty-four hours the Empress-Dowager, who had for a few hours become...”
9 Page 34

“...34 CHINA MISSION YEAJR BOOK. ferred from the Yunkwei viceroyalty to take that at Mukden. Later in the year Li Teh-hsun, the unscru- pulous Director of the northern section of the Tientsin- Pukow Railway, had to be removed, and as an indirect result the perfectly honourable Lu Hai-huan was re- moved from the office of Director-General. With the dismissal of Tuan Fang from the Chihli viceroyalty in November, Chen Kwei-lung was called to the north, and his place at Wuchang was taken by Jui Cheng. Tuan Fang had earlier in the year been succeeded at Nanking by Chang Jen-chen, who had handed over the Governor- ship of Shantung to Sun Pao-chi, thitherto for some time Minister to Germany. It is thus seen that more than half the nearest advisers of the Throne were removed during 1909 by death or dismissal, and half the heads of provinces were also removed or transferred. It might therefore be expected that the work of government would be inter- rupted. It is quite certain that little real progress...”
10 Page 36

“...36 china mission yeaJr book. governorship of Mukden, the holder thereof, Chen Teh- chuan, becoming Kiangsu Governor. Thus far we have dealt with Decrees and changes of a general character, but there remain those with a special purpose. First of these comes the large number con- cerning the suppression of opium. These date from 1906, but a confirmatory Decree was issued on 7th February, 1907, and on 25th June there appeared a Decree authoriz- ing the officials responsible for opium suppression to pay domiciliatory visits to delinquent officials and offering rewards to those officials who were successful in the sup- pression of the vice within their jurisdiction. On the 10th October following a list of opium-smoking officials was issued, but these were given another chance, being allowed to retire for the time being in order to get rid of the habit. On the 7th April of the following year an Imperial Decree commanded the establishment of in- stitutes iu which the cure could be effected, and...”
11 Page 50

“...60 china mission yeaJr book. examination of students. The examination of the first batch of students to the U. S. was held at the Hsio Pu shortly after the summer of 1909. Out of a total number of a few over 600 applicants for the examination, which lasted about a week, some 47 were selected after their papers had been carefully corrected and marked with foreign assist- ance. Those selected were sent to the U. S. soon after the examination under the charge of H. E. Tong Kai- son. I11 the course of the examination every care was exercised by the Directors to prevent dishonesty 011 the part of the applicants in connexion with the work. funds. The funds necessary for the support of the Bureau, as well as the students whilst studying in the U. S., and those to be sent hereafter are derived from a portion of the Boxer indemnity, which was remitted to China by the U. S. A. numbers to be sent out. According to arrangements made 100 should be sent out every year for the first four years, and thereafter...”
12 Page 52

“...52 china mission yeaJr book. The subjects examined on this year were Chinese Literature, Chinese Plistory and Geography, English Literature and Composition, Algebra, Plain Geometry, German and French, Latin, Solid Geometry, Physics, American History, English History, Trigonometry, Chemistry, History of Rome and Greece. Candidates may be examined in one of the lan- guages,German, French, or Latinin addition to Eng- lish, and if examined on two or all of them, extra marks will be given in their favour. examination open to auv. The examination is open to all students, provided they can answer- the conditions set forth above and others that may be imposed 011 them whenever necessary. No distinction is made as regards their religion. Of course a preference is attached to students of government educational institutions or those under government grant. expenditure incurred by candidates. All expenditure incurred by candidates in coming up to Peking for the sole purpose of participating in the...”
13 Page 56

“...56 china mission year book. HONGKONG UNIVERSITY. The name of Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong (1907- ) will be noteworthy in the annals of Hongkong on account of his successful labours to secure the establishment of a University. Queen's College has had a long and .honorable history, but the new University is to be a far more ambitious undertaking. Mr. H. N. Mody, one of the oldest Parsee residents in the Colonv, generously offered to provide buildings at an estimated cost of $280,000, and an En- dowment Fund of nearly $1,250,000 was raised in 1909, of which Chinese in the Colony and in Canton subscribed large sums. A site in Bonham Road has been selected and building begun. The authorities, assuming that Hongkong should one day be an educational centre for all South China, think that the site should be able to provide quarters for 500 students and also buildings for lecture rooms, laboratories, and all their accessories for 1,000 students. The buildings to be erected...”
14 Page 58

“...58 china mission year book. . The following is the list of schools conducted under the supervision of the Chilili Provincial Board of Educa- tion i University, located at Tientsin, i Provincial Col- lege,, at Paotingfu, 17 Industrial Schools, 3 Higher Nor- mal Schools, 49 Elementary Normal Schools, 2 Medical Colleges, 3 Foreign Language Schools, 4 Law Schools, 1 Physical Culture and Music School, 1 Telegraph School, 8 Commercial Schools, 5 Agricultural Schools, 36 Middle Schools, 174 Upper Primary Schools, 101 Mixed Grade Primary Schools, 8,534 Lower Primary Schools, 131 Girls' Schools, 179 Half-Day and Night Schools. This represents a development in modern educa- tion in Chihli for a period of six years only, at the begin- ning of which time about 8,000 students in schools were reported for the whole province and those chiefly in Tientsin. There are now 10,410 teachers engaged in this educational work in Chihli which, more than any other single fact, indicates the real growth of the move-...”
15 Page 60

“...ioo CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK. curriculum and that of institutions of higher grade is done by foreign teachers or foreign trained Chinese. The tendency is naturally toward employing returned foreign-trained students, that is, those who have grad- uated in European or American universities. This class of men is considerably increasing as time goes on, and we may not expect foreign teachers to be employed on a large scale in China. Money is being spent lavishly in sending students abroad, erecting modern school buildings and buying apparatus. Large printing presses are busy day and night printing books. The popular cry, "Pu Tung Chiao Yu," 44 Chia T'ing Chiao Yu (general education, home training) is realized as essential to constitutional government now promised to the people. The education of women is receiving unusual attention ; there being in Cliihli (not counting Peking) a total of 3,314 students and 203 teachers distributed over 61 different towns. Of the 120 schools, 57 are established...”
16 Page 62

“...62 china mission year book. Board of Foreign Affairs, and was a direct response of different memorials which I had previously presented. The one document briefly stated that my proposal for establishing a School of Political Science could not receive financial assistance of the Government, inasmuch as the regulations of the Board of Education stipulated that such a school must be under official management and could not be under private auspices. The other document, giving recognition to the work of the In- stitute, was far more satisfactory and encouraging. . This document is the fulfilment of the promise made to me personally, and contained in the Imperial Sanction of March, 1897 : When his plan for the Institute goes into operation, if the actuality answers to the pros- pectus, producing good and not evil, this Board will, after due investigation, confer additional tokens of ap- proval." During the last thirteen years there have been many vicissitudes of shadow and light, of encourage-...”
17 Page 64

“...64 china mission year book. sucli a plan for such a school could not succeed. As to the other department, which has been carried 011 in Shanghai for the last eight years, that of instruction in foreign languages, there is 110 need for Government support, but when it is borne in mind that there is a very large number of similar schools, both under Government auspices and under control of different missions, it is at once apparent that at least there is no great necessity for the Institute to continue this form of educational work. For establishing any other school that would be high-grade and successful, there would be needed either Government patronage or larger financial assistance from some source than the Institute is blessed with at the present time. Therefore, owing to my absence for a year from Shanghai, and the lack of Government support, it was decided at the last regular Semi-Annual Meeting that the class-room work of the -Institute be for the present abandoned, in order to give...”
18 Page 66

“...ioo china mission year book. take the time and trouble to meet the Chinese in a social way, to converse with them on all manner of subjects, and by our interest in their welfare to secure their friend- ship. If one man by years of patieut and persistent labour can succeed in securing the friendship of hun- dreds of the most influential in Peking and every one of the provinces, then how much more could be accom- plished by au organization in which others of kindred mind may take part for the accomplishment of the same object ? The channels of communication with the lead- ers of thought in this great Empire have already been opened, and we now ask others with their influence, wisdom and generosity to enter these channels and produce a far greater impression for good upon this people than could possibly be secured by the efforts of one person. For the development of such a spirit of harmonious cooperation between Chinese and foreigners, there have been already organized in Shanghai in connection...”
19 Page 68

“...ioo china mission year book. Shanghai could be thoroughly imbued with the idea of harmoniously cooperating with foreigners, and of aban- doning the very favorite war-cry of China for the Chinese," then China itself would derive great benefit, and, we are sure, our enrollment would be expanded. Every word of kindness and encouragement that has been written to us or spoken will be long cherished. Every act of kindness will be remembered. We give our gratitude in all sincerity to the kind Providence who has guided our steps in the past and bestowed on us more mercies than we have been worthy to receive. On the eve of our departure to the States we give our best wishes to those who will assist in carrying 011 the work of the International Institute, and we wish for China, where we have lived nearly three decades, the blessing of heaven in meeting all the difficulties that beset her on every side. We not only would be glad to have more friends for ourselves, but we pray that China, too, may...”
20 Page 70

“...ioo china mission year book. of Christianity." One of the leading officials of the Province asked for a copy of the address and permission to use it for publication. Copies of a special edition of the New Testament, given by the British and Foreign Bible Society, were later presented to all the leading officials in Tsinanfu. During the Shantung Federation Conference held in September, 1907, H. E. Wu T'ing-pin, Provincial Governor, attended a reception at the Institute to meet all members of the Conference. On this occasion an address was given clearly stating the attitude of Protestant missionaries towards the authorities. It is not possible in so short a statement as this to describe the educational contents of the Institute which specially appeal to the ruling classes. There are large models and pictures of Houses of Parliament, Law Courts, Universities, Colleges, Hospitals, etc., etc. ; historical maps and diagrams illustrating national progress and decline ; diagrams in colour showing...”