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Title: New life currents in China
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Gamewell, Mary Louise Ninde, 1858-1947
Subjects: Missions -- China China
Publisher: New York : Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nin China is the Commercial Press, the largest pub-lishing house in the Far East. The story of thebeginning, growth, and present achievements ofthis remarkable concern is one of absorbing in-terest. Founded by three Christian men, it has un-questionably done more to influence thinking andencourage modern education than any other secularagency. Its school primers are sold at a low priceto bring them within the easy reach of all. It wasthe Commercial Press that published PresidentWilsons principal war addresses in a neat littlevolume which quickly became one of the best sell-ing books in China. Mr. Crow bought 15,000 tosend gratis to his constituency. In addition to schoolbooks and general literaturewith which it floods the country—as many as1,000,000 copies of some of its text-books are soldannually—the Commercial Press publishes elevenmagazines, the latest on the list being the Indus-trial Monthly, whose first number appeared in Jan-uary, 1919. One of its periodicals is a magazine
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THREE SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS 165 for women, a Chinese Womans Home Journal,which was for a year edited by a woman. It re-ceives many contributions from women, and dis-cusses all the practical subjects that are of specialinterest to women. Frequent debates in the schools—governmentand mission—on live current topics, are not onlystimulating the students interest in national andworld movements, but teaching them to form andexpress an opinion. I have heard educators saythat the study of civics should begin in the primaryschools. Christian literature, in the way of books, tractsand periodicals, has a powerful influence in affect-ing not only religious thought, but the secular lifeand opinions of the people. The publications ofthe Christian Literature Society, which are moreparticularly for the scholar class, had much to doin shaping the liberal policy of the progressiveparty before and after the Boxer Rebellion. Twodenominational magazines, the Womans Messengerand Happy Childhood, count

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