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MONUMENT TO CHINESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP
muujrsug ana working among us; with “the Open Door” in
minant American poficy in the Far East; with the traditional friendship
5 constantly finding new expression, it still remains true to-day that to
This granite arch, near Chefoo, China,
bears the following inscription :
ier four hundred miffions of human beings, is a vast unknown, a mystery
opportunity come to Americans to know and understand China as now,
>ught together at a conference table of the world’s great powers in thé
irefore TH E LITERARY DIGEST has prepared a complete presentation
r Industries, their Ideals, and their Relations with the Rest of the World.
* DEDICATED TO AND ERECTED IN HONOR OF
THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
OUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE SEA
MAT THERE BE ETERNAL PEACE BETWEEN THE TWO PEOPLES
Americans Now May Know
A HOARY HISTORY
Story of China
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Coantless ages back, lost In the mists o f antiquity, thou
sands o f y e a n before the Christian Era, the Chinese
people began,—no one knows how . Did they spring
from the soil, or m igrate from ancient Turkey, or Syria,
or did they actually descend from Noah, after the Flood?
Their m any centuries o f known history is full o f w on
derful happenings. An outline o f it is given in this
special number o f T H E D IG E ST .
l ne story oi China for the past hundred years has
been largely the story of her spoliation by the white
races.” T o all w ho are accustomed to think o f Japan’s
“extension o f influence” as the chiefest of China’s troubles,
the article describing “ Europe’s Encroachments on China’s
Sovereignty” will bring an astounding revelation.
U N B IN D IN G
m e craoie of Chinese Q vm zafion; the Holy Land o f the
Chinese People; the birthplace o f the silk industry an
Eden o f agriculture ; an Aladdin’s Cave o f precious m etals
and stones; the heart that controls the internal commerce,
and communications o fth e entire Chinese Empire; one of the’
richest and m ost densely popoiated provinces o f the earth;
self-governed for five thousand y e a r e -T h e r e are m any
reasons *‘ W k y T hey S tru g g le -for S h a n tu n g ,” and the
article under that title is fan o f surprizing information,
illustrated w ith a specially-drawn m an
rTODawy not live persons in every ten thousand Am eri
cans could name even three o f the famous “tw enty-one
demands” imposed upon China by Japan. Yet these demands
have t ie most vital relationship to any settlement o f the
great ‘ Problem o f the Far E a s t ” T h ey have been vari
ously interpreted by the powers concerned. One o f the
most importaht articles in this w eek’s D IG E S T reveals
“T he Secret o f the Twenty-O ne
AMERICA: FRIEND and PROTECTOR
D uring all the troublesome years o f European and Japa
nese encroachments and demands on
China, only one
great power in the world has stood b y her as her pro
tector, and is her protector to-day, and that power is
Am erica.
A
splendid article teOs w h a t A m erica
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done and is doing to m afotam "th e Open D o o r" and to
CHINA’S RELIGIONS, CUSTOMS. ART
T o know China it is
. to know her religions.
A d ear explanation o f the part which Buddhism, T ao
ism, Confucianism, Ancestor W orship, and Christianity
play in Chinese life is contained in a special article on
foe subject “ Men and M anners in China“ jg another
color fill article, fall o f interesting incidents. T he “Pecu
liar (^lalitfos of Chinese A r t” are mstructivelv described.
THE WOMEN
A long with the crippling of Chinese wom en’s feet « id foe
custom o f killing or selling girl-babies, has gray a
subordination o f the whole sex. B at w om en in Own*
being unbound, physically, mentally, morally, rad socially.
A most instructive article telis how the traraformatico fe
being w rou gh t
SCIENCE IN CHINA
W hile the people in Europe were going about dressed fn
tl te skins o f wild animals and using pieces o f stone tied to
sticks for tools and weapons, the Chinese were a highly
developed and sldlful nation. T hey were the inventors o f
gunpowder, the mariner’s compass, the art o f p r i n t i ng »ha
mailing of porcelain, and the manufacture o f silk. Read
about their casting o f metals, their electrical indxstriea,
their medicine, their curious treatment o f fractures, and
m any other marvels and oddities.
A LANGUAGE OF PICTURES
Chinese written characters are full o f expressive sy m
bolism and piquant commentaries on social and foduo-
trial life. There is a picture character for “ m a n ” rad
another for “ field.” Both put together mean “ farmer."
Combine the character which means “w ord” with “*»*ra“
and w e have a man and his word, or “honesty.” The
symbols for “w om an” and “so n ” together mean “good."
T w o of the symbols for “ wom an,” together, m ean “quar
rel.” Three o f them together stand for “gossip." An
interesting article reproduces and explains m any o f these
story characters o f the Chinese language.
Exclusive Map, in Colors, of the Divided Republic
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k<»hon o f its iron and coal fields and other mines. Stffl
m ap show s just w tsjre the zones o f commercial influence of the various European
in China are located. T hese m aps are o f infinite value in making plain the real situ-
China. T he flag oCtfae/Chinese Republic is reproduced in correct colors on the cover
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