The most superficial readers of the daily papers cannot but be aware of the fact that there is just now manifest on every hand an eager desire on the part of western nations to share in the higher education of the Chinese.
is easily first in the num-of educational institutions established in China and runs even Japan closely in the number of Chinese students who have crossed the sea to gain instruction in her home colleges and technical schools, Germany, before the War,, stood really first in the quality of the education given in China (including Tsingtao) though she kept very quiet as to what she was doing and only Germans and a very limited number of Chinese knew how much or how good that was. France has recently been bidding for a much larger share than she has hitherto had. She cannot claim the same sort of share in Catholic education, which is very largely in French, that America and Britain can in the educational work of the Protestant missions of those countries. Siccawei is the outstanding example of what Catholics do for higher education of Chinese and though the meteorology of Siccawei is well known, it is by no means the only science which is well taught by the large staff at the College. Sweden has just embarked on a university scheme which is planned to add a higher course on to the good elementary and middle work which has been done by Lutheran missionaries in Hupeh, Hunan and Honan. Although Japan's greatest effort has been the training she has given to Chinese in Japan, she has taken up the work started by Germans at Tsingtao and Tsinan and has_ started very high class work of her own in Mukden.
Until the dawn of the 20th century, Great Britain was hardly conscious of the very backward position she occupied in this matter. Inside the century she has done something of mark in the Hongkong University. But Hongkong is hardly China and although she is well placed for Cantonese as Tsingtao for Shantungese, the great mass of mandarin speaking Chinese are never "at home" in Canton; much less in the British colony that is still less '"'Chinese," as mid-Chinese use the word, than Canton.
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