One of the most discouraging points brought out in the course of these studies is how little advantage has accrued to the Chinese peasant by the improvement of communications and the advance of business enterprise in the Inst three decades, A. study by Chi Ping, taken from the Rural Weekly Supplement of Tientsin 1 Shih Pao, August 17, 1935, shows how the commercialism which' followed in the train of peanut and salt production in southern Hopei, has intensified the exploitation of ' the peasants, Within a two year period 30 per cent. of the families had fallen into debt. Hsu Yung-sui in his article Tobacco Marketing in Eastern Shantung, (Shun Pao Weekly Supplement, April 11, 1937,) and Min Chi in "The British-American Tobacco. Company and the Honan Peasants" (Chung-Kuo Nung-Ts'un, July 1936) take as it thesis the advancing profits of industrial capital at the expense of the peasant. These two iuhors grant, however, that the monopoly of the tobacco market has been gained by "the formidable al-bane" of the burenuerats, rotten ud foreign capital."" Several xive py picture of "imstudies on the sible industry in Wusth
there,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.