. Lion and dragon in northern China. MARKET VILLAGES 129 decade, may not be far from that figure. Continuingthis rough estimate, it may be said that the NorthDivision x of the Territory contains 100 square mileswith 84 villages, and a population of 50,000; theSouth Division 200 square miles with 231 villages anda population of 100,000. There are no walled townsor villages with the exception of the so-called city ofWeihaiwei, which is nominally under Chinese juris-diction. There are six market centres, all of whichare situated in the South Division with the exceptionof the first named: they are
. Lion and dragon in northern China. MARKET VILLAGES 129 decade, may not be far from that figure. Continuingthis rough estimate, it may be said that the NorthDivision x of the Territory contains 100 square mileswith 84 villages, and a population of 50,000; theSouth Division 200 square miles with 231 villages anda population of 100,000. There are no walled townsor villages with the exception of the so-called city ofWeihaiwei, which is nominally under Chinese juris-diction. There are six market centres, all of whichare situated in the South Division with the exceptionof the first named: they are Weihaiwei city, Feng-lin,Ku-shan-hou, Chiao-tou, TVao-miao-tzu and Yang-ting. Market is held at each of these places on everyfifth day. All these markets are of old standing with theexception of that of Ku-shan-hou, which was estab-lished, or rather revived, in 1907. The most importantof the markets are those at Weihaiwei, Chiao-tou,and Yang-ting. The merchandise sold includes allkinds of agricultural produce in addition to materia
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