The China Year Book for 1094, {s just off the press and as compared with the work issued last year contains no fewer than ¥0 more pages of letterpress including $2 which are devoted to the Rajehman Report. 'There is much new information the volume. The chapter on Chinese Turkestan has been re-written by 'Mr. Owen Lattimore, who has also revised the chapter' on Mongolia, Without any intention of pronouncing, fu the status of the new State, all information regarding Manchuria, which in previous issues was scat: tered throughout the volume under the various headings, has been concentrated in one chapter. It would, og, have been misleading to" sug: gest that the Chinese Government, day, hed any control over the Manchoukuo Railways. A study the Catholic Church during the Nationalist Revolution has been—contributed by Father P.M. D'Elia, 83, and fuller information and statistics regarding Protestant Missions have been compiled by the Rev. Charles L. Boynton. The docu mented history of the Kuomintang 1s brought down to the end of January, 1994. Mr. E. Kann, an acknowledged authority, has not only revised. the Chapter on Currency, but contribut-a study of Chinese Government Loans. Trade Statistics for 1982 and 1933 are included, and there isa ow chapter on the Chinese Press, the Customs changed over to quntric weights and measures on February 1, 1994, the new metric tariffs, import, export and interport, are printed in extense, Every chap: {er of the book that has not been Fevised and brought. rely re-written has been careful
including the Who! prow tinent Chinese. The 1934 issue contains over one million words, and within its covers the student, the Publicist and the. politician is likely to find every fact and figure he may Fequire regarding the China of to. day.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.