AN OBSERVATION TRIP IN CHINA.

The article focuses on an observational trip to China. Very much of the reform and revolutionary activity in China centers in Canton, China, and the greater part of that originates with the overseas Chinese, as they are called. There are perhaps eight and a half million of these, and they are universally prosperous. The revolution of 1911, which established the republic in China, originated from such sources. A few months prior to the real revolution there was a premature revolution in Canton which resulted in the death of seventy-two Cantonese, many from among the most prominent families. Of the few who escaped, the present president of Kwantung University was one. In some ways Canton seems more Chinese than any considerable Chinese city, but the Chinese here are more westernized in certain ways than the Chinese of any other place. There is a good deal of wealth, but it tends in these times to move into Hongkong. The author also visited the Commercial Press (the biggest printing establishment in China, run by Christian men).