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This month's issue of the "China Journal" contains & large number of Articles well up to the usual standard of this most interesting periodical and is very profusely illustrated. The Eaitor deals with the Dragon Boat Festival in his leading article end reinforces it with three pages fof illustrations, the most interesting of which are pictures of an early issue of Foochow postage stamps showing dragon boats in the foreground, and also a particularly fine photograph of a dragon boat at Nan-long taken by Mr. R. V, Dent. Prob ably one of the most absorbing artiles deals with astronomy in ancient China, which is chiefly historical in lis aspect and does show the enormous interest that the Chinese take in matters celestial, An important description 1s given, in connection with Chinese literature "in the Malayan Tanguage, of how centuries of resi dence in' the Netherlands Indies and Malaya has resulted in the loss by many Chinese of a knowledge of their own language. In this connection Mr. Nie Joe Lan says With the passing of time, the need of the Chinete 10. know more about the literature, art and history of their Imouher country. has been more and emends, novels and other literary works have been trans ated: into Malayan. 'That the results fof this work have proved popular nearly" all known' Chinese legends and "The work translation "reached {ts culmination about twenty years ago, when. the public demand for such' works be-Game' go enormous that there was much competition in "the rendering Into" Malayan of the classics and semicclasses.
And the author goes on to point out that a. peculiarity about the translation of Chinese novels and other Ierary works. into Malayan that titles, names and places are transcribed from the Fukien dialect, the reason for this being the large number of emigrants from Fukien who now live in. the Netherlands Indies. A Trip to Huei-shou by Mo~ for-ear is most interestingly written and illustrated; while Mr. E, Kann Writes another' of his well-informed and illuminating articles on a Brief History of Silver. Mosquito control with very ably in an article that heading, written in a manner which is easy to follow and ing qnuch information upon idy_of the mosquito in the Shang-
"La Revue Nationale Chinoise" for the current: month is as full of in~ formation as all those numbers which have preceded it during the last six years," One of the most interesting articles is that by Dr. Wal on Women in Chinese Society, in which hho points out that the feminist movement ie still well behind that of the "West, though the lethargic life of the Chinese woman had ceased shortly before the fall of the Manchu dynasty, and he quotes the opinions several feminists whose arguments concerning their movement have about them the old familiar ring of the West. Reports of interesting lectures by Francis de Croisset and Mare Chadourne occupy a space commensurate with the value of their addresses; while the description of a Sino-French house in Shanghai by a Chinese gives an interesting picture of" the. intellectual and moral rap~ brochement which is developing in the cultural relations of China and France, The usual" review of the month is published and the work generally is full of a large amount Of valuable information, The Editor of the "Chinese Recorder" publishes in the June issue iraportant article in which he deals with the necessity of Christianity going beyond Communism, and in which the following important sentiments are expressed:
Wo are well aware that going bo-yond "Communism invotver tasks 'Whose completion belongs to the Felativoly. distant" future. 'That Is What gives them their adventurous Bppeals We cannot adopt. a slogan like" Scrhe' Christianization " of the Social Order in this Generation," No tone iieneration. can achieve ft." Such {asi belongs to the new snd longer Gay of missions that is emerging. In that day missions will not mean. the passage of men anda massage {rom West fo East, but a struggle to set up" a spiritualized social order throughout the. West and. East.
parts of the world the passing italic. order has built Iti up more strongly than in others. 'But hho part of the world is there yet a fatistactory order that, gives all the unprivileged their rights. Modern Inislonaries need. Hat, therefore, start Sut. as some of their predecessors, feeling' that their" civilization superior to that of those to_whom complex may Christianity must go beyond Com-finnnism dri "order to Jusity Grltclam of Communism's un-Christian methods, meet its challenge and make food the. Christian claim that in'God is) a dynamic that will) enable men "to. live. justly well as spiritually. Going beyond Communism isa harder task than foing to the ends of the earth. falls, therefore, for, an enlarged Felease of the same determined. and Sacrificial spirit that surmounted, the Stupendous -difculties of preaching Another aspect of the question is dealt. with by Lewis S. C. Smythe of the Communist Challenge to Christianity and by Paul R. Reynolds on Religion and Revolution, both of Which articles are most thoughtful and give rise to considerable specula~ tion. From a technical point of view the article on auditing mission funds.
of no little Importance, especially the following passage:
'Aside from the facts which regular audits would bring out" and the tnformative value in. ollier ways which properly' audited statement would tive to all concerned, there 1s another Phase with which I want to close. Rave already referred to the approv which such a polley would eliot from the. publ home and from. the business community abroad. When the accounts of -our enterprise. are properly "recorded and "reported "in Glearsout statements which have been authoritatively audited Perlenced "aegountant. our own col-Teagues in" the eld. both. Chinese fad missionaries will have an assur~ lance "thatthe organization "Is being! Conducted wisely and efficiently. And they will also" be. better formulate. polices of advance (or present—rretrenchmenti) when they Know "exactly what. the" financial Condition of each institution "realy fe'whleh in innumerable cases in the past har been and sill at present {mpossibie.
The "Chinese Economic Journal" for June contains a review of China's foreign trade for the second half of 1983, prepared by the Direc for of the Bureau of Foreign Trade, which appears to be informative and well supplied with statistics. Asin the case of the Customs' Siatistical Secretary's report, emphasis is laid fon the that "the unfavourable trade balance during 1933 was considerably smaller than in 1992, though the writer of the report advances reasons why this decrease "actually furnishes no ground for satisfaction" Mr. Chen Kung-po contributes article on Some Minor Aspects of the Land Problem, in which he admits that he had reached no conclusion fas the result of his study, emphasizes the scarcity of reliable data and the the kaleidoscope views presented by numerous commentators which bewilder more than help those interested in forming any conclusions, and presents the points he makes for the expert consideration of those studying the land problem.
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