At the commencement of the decade 1905-15, Shanghai was subject to the influences of a war not of inconsiderable dimensions, that of her neighbours in the north and over the Yellow Sea. It consumed human life in number about equal to the entire native population of Shanghai. '570,000 souls, as said in the previous riticle, "At the close of the decade, government funds. The students. of whom there are. at, present about" 300, re expecially trained for work in China. The college course lasts for 3 years and S00. students have already pasted through and are "now at work in different parts of China, pushing their ountey's commercial interests. A large Site has been secured at Siccawei, and and suitable premises are to be rected shortly.
1008. the. value of 1918, another war, of a stupendous nature, had burst upon the world But this time, as far as Shanghai was concerned, the theatre of violent disturbance was at the other end of the globe; neverineless, so enormous. and all-embracing a conflict as was the Great War could not but have its repercussions here.
Before dwelling on the commercial aspect of our rear port at this period, and the statistical and finan-lal phases, ft is necessary to have an insight as to the evolutionary movements which China in general had been undergoing in the intervening period leading up to the close of this decad adequate understanding of Shanghai's growth, its history has to be taken in conjunction with these much larger and primary movements, The impact of the Westerner, with this spectacular material success, provided the people of China ' with cular demonstration that li was not well with the governance of their Imperial domains. 'The example of the Japanese accentuated poignantly the elfleacy of the "white" man's methods. In the mentality of the Chinese, with their superiority complex, of viewing all foreigners barbarians, they considered that they should be' easily capable of doing what their "despised" relatives were achieving.
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