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"Spy "Dr. T.-H. Lee. Shanghai:
The Commercial Press, Ld.
Dr. Lee, who is President of the Fuhtan. University, attempts. in this volume to. bring together interesting and important -articles with regard to China. He.sets for himself the. task of selecting articles in accordance with the following requirements:
1, Tt_must be inspirational and stimulative, Mowat be constructive and 3. [mest store all, nave. special Dearing on China's problems."
One is rather surprised in reading this book that most of the articles are the sophoromic contributions of young Chinese, while they were studying in the United States, to the "Chinese Students' Monthly."
dates are given to show when the articles were published and as many of them are out of date and in some instances do not deal with conditions as they are to-day in China, one wonders whether these articles wore not written many, many years ago, in some instances, before the War.' For instance, in a discussion of the Chinese Maritime Customs on page 273, statistics are given for the years from 1906 to 1912. The assumption then must be that the article was either written in 1913 or 1914 and much water has lowed under the bridges since them. It is rather surprising that a book published in 1927 should sive Customs figures not later than prepared for There are footnotes, with the apparent purpose of simplifying the student's labour in understanding, the sentences, but some of the footnotes are even more sult to understand than the words themselves. For instance, the definition for "permeating" is given as "pervading." Exactly how to a student? for "fall of pathos or conducive of pity" and 80 on.through the book. We should imagine that if these footnotes were in. Chinese the took would be con-anced in value. lly, one finds statements which are not exactly mature thinking. For instance, on page 150 in an article by Mr. H. A. Pan, about whom there: ix no information in the book, the following sentence appears:
computation to"Trequent mise "The impersonal feature it the inoment. avoid the sive Management of corporate Any text book on economics would explain to Mr. Pan why directors and managers cannot be personally liable for failures in corporations, unless they themselves are guilty of fraud and it isa very bad idea to suggest to the youthful mind that they should be made responible at a time when one of the most vital needs of China is the development of the modern corpora-and the utilization of the vast surplus of money in the country in constructive enterprises.
Some of the articles are particularly noteworthy and mention of them might be made here. "The Need of Experts" by Mr. Loy Chang particularly, well thought. on: tre China's Introd of Foreign Institutions" by Mr. J. S. Burgess deals frankly and well wi an important subject, "Industrial Education in China" by Mr. S. T. Dean is an authoritative statement sject. by one. who has made a thorough investigation of it. "What the Government Should do to Encourage New Industries" by Mr. H. A. Pan, with the exception of the criticism already noted, is one of the best articles in the volume and has. much permanent value. "The Relations Between China and the West" by Dr. C. C. Wa is undoubtedly the finest English in the entire volume and provides a complete summary of the orthodox Kuomintang view of China's international relations. We may quatre] with this view and we may. object that at times it is exceedingly unfair, but nevertheless, it is of value to have it in this permanent form.
On the whole, this volume, which only costs $2.50 is woll- worth buying, largely because it. provides. a ind. to, what. Chinese, who were boys in American colleges and who are now emerging as leaders, thought of conditions. in their. own country, which thinking' has undoubtedly influenced the course of their conduct upon their return to China—G.ES, ial on Labour which begins with a discussion of the Cost of Living and 'a general compilation of prices, wages and hours-and goes through the whole question of strikes, boy. cotts and Labour disturbances Sal Tends ap to the comections between labourers and the Commun-
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