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Title: Present-day conditions in China; notes designed to show the moral and spiritual claims of the Chinese empire
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Broomhall, Marshall, 1866- China Inland Mission
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) Fleming H. Revell company Philadelphia (etc.) China Inland Mission
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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fices opened, throughout all China. More than34,000 miles of wire connect the most distant yamens withPeking, and a Danish engineer has lately been appointed forthe extension of the line to Lhassa. More than 2000 PostOffices, which during 1906 handled 113,000,000 articles, areopened throughout the Empire. I Some two hundred daily papers are now published wherea few years ago none existed, thus making the reader in the farinterior acquainted with the latest movements in Europe. ThePeking Gazette itself has been changed in name and enlarged insize, while machinery is being imported into Lhassa for thecommencement of a public press. The Anti-Footbinding Movement has entered upon a newstage, having passed from the guidance of European and Americanladies to the control of a number of enlightened and influentialChinese gentlemen, among whom are Taotai Shen and AdmiralSah. Decrees have been issued permitting change of custom in The whole line to Nauking was opened on April 1, 1908. ^^Hn^^i^K
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Reduced Facsimile of the Chinese Postal Map of the Province of Honan. In 1906 there were no fewer than 2096 modern post, offices in China, which handled 113 million articles. The courier routes amounted to 51,000 miles, boat routes to 6000 miles, and railway routes to about 4000 miles. To face page 6. CHINA MOVING, BUT WHITHEE? 7 funerals, marriage, and dress, and perhaps most strange of all,the Western love of sport has taken possession of the erstwhiledecorous Chinese student. The well-known and aged Viceroy Chang Chihtung hasrecently celebrated the Empress Dowagers birthday by a greatinter-school field day, when some fifty schools and collegescompeted in athletics and sport, while, more remarkable still,the Union Medical College at Peking actually celebrated thebirthday of Confucius by a football match. Eevolt from ancientideals could hardly go further. Can any Christian contemplate the prospect of this peoplebreaking away from their ancient and cherished past—notknowing whither

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