The book deals with the Chia, or expanded family. as a basle group with common property. a common Dudget and a common life: with parents and children, marriage and Kinship, property and inheritance, the Pao Cheo system Chiefly falls to funelion), livelihood and oceupational differentiation, the catendar of work, agriculture, land tenure, the "silk industry. sheep raising marketing, finance, and agrarian prolems.
In treating the silk industry Dr. Fei uses an interesting three-column, method of presenting the outside, ores making for change, the changing situation, and. the traditional Forces bearings on change. One sees the post-war depression of world economy affecting a small Chinese village by its. reduction of the price sil to one-third the former price. But the decline in price leads. efforts to improve the quality of silk' to find a bottor market, So it is that' the "reformers of the sericulture school step. in from outside, teach Deller methods of breeding, hatching and raising. silkworms, in collecting. the cocoons and in reeling the silk thread, Finally the provincial overnment steps in, supplies ox cards from ffs own experimental stations, helps eliminate the diseases of worms ud cocoons.
Whenever drainage Is needed, the chiot manager will ive orders to the {nanagerr "arly In the morning these iRanavers wil tore. ihe workers Srv on duty pee tet atom hima Signal, the ether two charged to work A ihe Blimp half am four after the tonic same pump "wi stop, Tele ork "take the pivot, ofthe: pump 40 the' Nearest grocery and pring And. some fruit and' essies the cost of the "Spot pounds of "wine tte wil be charged to the absentee Goa ting. But i the manager has not Tntormed the "absentee ie. himsctt mist hear the Fesponsibllliy Keep to the Book Suaxcuar Monica, Pottce—Gome estate: fo. Buoitea by the Shanghat Mluntcigal Pole printed' by Nhe" Skangnat Municipal Pact Priting epartient. Por pet What may safely be termed one of the most complete police guide and Tequlation books ever to have been published has been' distributed to all embers of the shanghai. Municipal Police. 'The. volume, bound ina heavy cover, complica" by tains: everything from the' definition nspecior W. Hf, Widdowson, and con-
fof "Acelyiene "Gas" to details on Spinanee and Loan. Companies." and. whilst in the preface written by the Commissioner of Police itis stipulated that the book should be considered a guide and. nota. legal reference ook, perusal of the volume indicates that Shanghai's police officers will not possibly bein 'a position to or if they Keep to, what they find in their} new "Guid
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