Book, 1926, now published, continues present new and valuable chapters fand sections, together with all, dard chapters. of the previous year books thoroughly revised and rewritten by Chinese and foreign experts The feature of this Intest volume Is compactness in. thas the number of pages has been genetly reduced and, the size of type used slightly enlarged {o allow for easier reading, Painstaking effort has also been made to ensure that the wealth of Information provided is simply obtained through the carefully annotated and comprehensive index, How greatly the scope of the Year Book in its eighteenth volume has been expanded can discerned in the various new fields eign trade, the Council, the—smugaling problem, national currency, the growth radio in China, a chapter on Shanghai most exhaustively treated, a section on public health services, a valuable contribution on insurance business in China, the' cinema, some pertinent hhinte for travellers and a section on the Customs import tariff. In addition the section for texts of documents concerning foreign relationships now Include those of many others, among them being the report by Sir Frede-
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