Identifier: cu31924023119880 (find matches)
Title: The awakening of China
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916
Subjects: Eastern question (Far East)
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d with great vigotir. Not to speakof high schools for both sexes in Fukien, they havea flourishing college in Shanghai, and a university inthe imperial capital under the presidency of H. H.Lowry. Destroyed by the Boxers in 1900, thatinstitution has now risen phoenix-like from its asheswith every prospect of a more brilliant future thanits most sanguine friends ever ventured to anticipate. AMERICAN BOARD COLLEGE AT TUNGCHOW A fine college of the American Board at Tungchow,near the capital, met the same fate and rose againwith similar expansion. Dr. Sheffield, its president,has made valuable contributions to the list of educa-tional text-books. These great schools, together with the MedicalCollege of the London Mission, above referred to, anda high school of the United States Presbyterians,have formed a system of cooperation which greatlyaugments the efficiency of each. Of this educationalunion the chief cornerstone is the Medical College. A similar cooperative union between the English
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AGENCY OF MISSIONARIES 287 Baptists and American Presbyterians is doing a greatwork at Weihien, in Shantung. I speak of these be-cause of that most notable feature—union internationaland interdenomination^. Space would fail to enumer-ate a tithe of the flourishing schools that are aidingin the educational movement; but St. Johns College,at Shanghai (U. S. Episcopal), though already men-tioned, claims further notice because, as we now leam,it has been given by the Chinese Government thestatus of a university. PREPARATION OP TEXT-BOOKS Schools require text-books; and the utter absenceof anything of the kind, except in the department ofclassical Chinese, gave rise to early and persistentefforts to supply the want. Manuals in geographyand history were among the first produced. Thosein mathematics and physics followed; and almanacswere sent forth yearly containing scientific informa-tion in a shape adapted to the taste of Chinese readers—alongside of religious truths. Such an annualiss

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