Dr. Hodgkin's Study of Present Day Problems "China in the Family of Nations' by Henry T. Hodgkin, w.a.,.p. Lon don; George Allen & Unwin, Ld.
Dr, Hodgkin'; new book is the fourth of a series of notable works issued under the auspices of the Central Council of the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham (England). The book is inscribed ''to the Chinese students who have studied or are now studying in Britain, in the hope that it may help my fellow-countrymen to understand some of their feelings and aspirations and so to seek for a national policy towards China, animated by respect, the spirit of fair play and intelligent sympathy." This inscription and the preface to the book make clear what the author has tried to do. We feel sure that those who carefully read Dr. Hodgkin's book will admit that he has attained his object.
The author was for several years resident in (Szechuan and was a member of the governing body of the West China Union University at Chengtu. Dr. Hodgkin has recently travelled extensively in China, Japan and Korea, and has now settled in Shanghai og the Secretary of the National Christian Council.
One does not need to read far to find that Dr. Hodgkin is a whole-hearted admirer of the Chinese; indeed he frankly confesses this. Like most enthusiasts he is at times inclined to let his heart take control of his pen, but he also states with unmistakable frankness the shortcomings of his friends.
We commend tha book to Chinese, as well og to non-Chinese readers, and especially to Mr, Ku Hung-ming and others like him who. appear to believe that China has lost all her friends. The late Sir Everard Fraser would have welcomed this book; it would have cheered him greatly, for he was one of the few who seem to understand the Chinese. One of Sir Everard's last public utterances was to the effect that those who really knew the people of China regarded them as, perhaps, the most charming people in the world.
In the first section of the book the author deals mainly with the early international relationships of China, and in the fourth
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