Interesting Address by Lady Educated in Three Countries Abroad The modern Cixinese young wo-num was given an educational setting in an interesting address presented on Monday afternoon by Mis Shu Ping-huai before a representa tive group of ladies at, the Union Club "during the tea hour. Miss Knai, who is herself a returned student, having attended schools in England, France and for a short time in America, and being graduate of Oxford University, gave her impressions of "Education of Women in China'" as she had had occasion to view it since her return about a year ago, after five years? absence from China, At present she is professor of history at the Chih Tze and National Universities, She was introduced by Lady Bar= ton who mentioned the occasion as cone tending to foster more complete Understanding between foreigners and Chinese. In Mies Kuai's.talle which was punctuated with delicious bits of humour throughout, she said that the changes which had struck liber most forcibly upon her rerun were the growth of Shanghsi, the rise of Canton in importance' and the dwindling in prominence of Peking, a growing nationalism, a live ly interest by right minded foreign~ ers toward knowing China, and especially, the fact. that Chinese womanhood had lost its former pradery.
Tu her remarks, Miss Huai touene principally upon the type of young Chinese woman to be four al in large cities and ports. This type, she said, was in most respects identical with " foreign girl in the same station. "She did. the same things, from bobbing her hair to riding' horseback and driving motor cars and attended ce-educational vehools. Miss Kuni described cochieational schools an being "nak tural growth in the educational system of China, a growtiy which was to be compared with the sya tem prevalent in England and France ratier than that of the com plete ce-educational opportunities of America Scotland and Denmark, In veferving to the three types of schools found in China, Miss Kai declared the missionary schools to be the best organized. Private schools, she described nis bad insofar as they lowered educa tional standards through competing for students, and the government echoois were described as the worst.
the lot as they were generally in need of funds, suffered from absentee presidente or principals who often had political ambitions and provided almost no disd for the students, Appearing on the afternoon's programme also, was Mrs, K, C. Chang: who gave' at piano selections, Chopin's March MHitery, and Chas minade's Searf Dance,
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