. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. re judiciously slow to accept a new and up-start civilization for their own, which has, until thesehigh-nosed Europeans came, withstood the tests ofchiliads; but, with twentieth-century conditions,some innovations have been inevitable, and the adop-tion of these in China to-day represents tragedy andcomedy ludicrously mixed. Shanghai is a hard fieldfor missionary work, but, like every other enterprise,that activity centres here. The Presbyterian Press,which turned out over eighty mill
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. re judiciously slow to accept a new and up-start civilization for their own, which has, until thesehigh-nosed Europeans came, withstood the tests ofchiliads; but, with twentieth-century conditions,some innovations have been inevitable, and the adop-tion of these in China to-day represents tragedy andcomedy ludicrously mixed. Shanghai is a hard fieldfor missionary work, but, like every other enterprise,that activity centres here. The Presbyterian Press,which turned out over eighty million pages ofliterature this year, and employs two hundred and fiftyChinese, is perhaps the largest printing establishmentin Asia. Other missions support similar works ; andthe colleges and schools attached to the respectivechurches are largely patronized by influential andwealthy natives who now see the immense advan-tage derived from these institutions. By far thegreatest number of men now in Government employdemanding some knowledge of English have comefrom mission schools. The Society for the Diffusion.
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