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MONUMENT TO CHINESE AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP
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M DEDICATED TO AND EIECTEO IN HlMIOR OF ;
THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
OUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE SEA
MAT THERE 6E ETERNAL PEACE BETWEEN THE TWO PEOfltS'
Whoever understand China socially, politically, economically,
and religiously, holds the key to the world's politics for the
. ext, five centuries;--Former Secretary of State, JOHN HAY.
yiTHSEVENTY THOUSAND Chinese studying and working: among us; with "the Open ; Door" in
. China standing as the great; dominant American policy in the Far East; with the traditional friendship
between China and the United States constantly . finding new expression, it still Remains true to-day that to
practically all Americans China, with her four hundred millions of human, beings, is a vast unknown, a mystery
unfathomable. Never has so good an opportunity come to Americans to know and understand .'China as now,
when Japan and China have been brought together at a conference table of the world's great powers in the
Capital of the American Republic. Therefore THE LITERARY DIGEST has prepared a complete presentation
,of China, the Country, the People, their Industries, their Ideals, and their Relations with the Rest -of the World.
AmericaES Now May Know ttie
A HOARY fflSTORY:: r-U 'SHANTUNG V:. i;-
Counlloss gca back, lewt, h it mats jt lantiqqlty, thby- " , The cradle of Chineiw 'Oviltkm;' be." Hoijr Land of the
Kinds of years before' the Chrktum Era, the Chlniwe" ' Chinese People;1 the birthplace of the silk industry, en
Monte brcano one knows bow. Did ' they spring Eden of agriculture; an Aladdin's Cave of precious metals
from the soil, or micratt from, ancient iTurkey. or,Syria.-t -;,anJ stones ;. the heart thatontrols the internal commerce,
... . I I fJj'Mw't.AM. ,uk tw ' .'- communicatioos of theetotire Chinese Empire; one of the
or did they actonlJy drscend from NoaJvafitr the Flood? h-' . . tne, 'vf ...
Thoir many centuries of known ; ''hjafery'ti, full of won- X
derfal happeninga. . An outline of it 'b given - in this
Whole,Siory of CMma
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special rmmber of THE DIGEST., .L.
THE WHITE RAIDS ON CHINA
"The story of China for the past hundred years haa
been largely the story of her . spoliation by the white
races," To all who are accustomed to think of Japan's
"extension of Influence" as the chiefest of China's troubles,
the article describing "Europe's Encroachment do China's
, .Sovereignty", will brinj; an astounding revelation.
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W1ERICA: FRIEND and PROTECTOR
During all the troublesome years of European and Japa
nese encroachments and demands on China, only one
great power in the world has stood by her as her protector,-
and is her protector to-day, and that power is
America. A tplendid articla tells what America has
done and is doing to maintain "the Open Door" and to
I rrotoct China from voracious raids of foreign powers.
richest and meet .densely populated provinces'of the earth;
&GH-gxverni lor nve thousand years There are many
reasons "Wlty Thty Straggle for Shantung," and the
article under that title, is JuU of surprizing informatkn,
illustrated with a specially-drawn map. ' ;
JAPAN'S 21 DEMANDS
Probably not five persons in every ten thousand Ameri
cans could name even three of the Carious "twcr.ty-one
demands" imposed upon China by Japan. Yet thess demands
have the most vital relationship to any settlement of tlie
great "Problem of the Far East" They have been vari
ously interpreted by the powers concerned. One of the
most important articles in this week's DIGEST reveals
"The Secret of the Twenty-One Demands."
CHINA'S RELIGIONS, CUSTOMS, ART
To know China it is necessary to know her religions.
A dear explanation of the part which Buddhism. Tao
ism, Confucian isni, Ancestor Worship, and ; Christianity
play in Chinese life is contained in a spefcial article on
the subject "Men and Manners in China" is another
colorful article, full of interesting incidents. The "Pecu
liar Qualities of. Chinese Art" are instructively described.
UNBINDING THE WOMEN
Along with the crippling of Chinese women's feet and tha
custom of kilting or selling girl-babies, has gone a general .
subordination of the whole sex. But women in China are
being unbound, physically, mentally, morally, and socially.
A most rsttuctiye article tells how the transformation is
being wrought . '. , f. . ;
SCIENCE.iN.:CHINA;', '".VV-'"'
. While, the people in Europe were going about dressed m
the skins of wild antmal3 and using pieces of stone tied to
sticks for tools and weapons, .the Chinese were a highly
developed and ckilful nation. They were the inventors of
gunpowder, the mariner's compass, the art of printing, the
making of porcelain, and the manufacture of silk. Read
about their casting of .metals, their electrical industriaa,
their mcckine, their curious treatment of fractures, and
many other marvels and oddities. :
A LANGUAGE OF PICTURES
; Chinese written characters are full of expressive sym
bolism end piquant commentaries on social and indus
trial life. . There is a picture 'character for "roan" and i
- another for "field." 'Both put together mean 11 farmer."
Combine the character which means "word" with "man"
' and we have a man and his word, or "honesty. The
symbols for "woman' and "son" together mean "good."
Two of the symbols for "woman," together, mean "quar
rel." Three of them together stand for "gossip" An
interesting article reproduces and explains many of these
: story characters of the Chinese language. 7
-Ah-:E&dusiye;
No Such map has been published in this country before. It shows at a glance the provinces
under the Peking Government those under the Canton Government and those which are
independent or neptrol. The leading article tells the whole story of the Divided Republic
'' Another valuable map shows the Province of Shantung, with its railways, roads, cable lines,
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and grand canal, as wsll as the location of its iron and coal fields ' and other mines, StiD ,
another map shows just where the zones of commercial influence of the various European
Powers in China are located. These maps are of infinite value in making plain the real situ
' ation in China. The flag of ths Chinese Republic is reproduced in correct colors on the cover.
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