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MID-PACIFIC MAGAZINE April-June, 1935 CONTENTS CHINA: 9 articles with 66 illustrations Today's China • KING-CHAD MUI, Consul-General for China in Hawaii My Glimpse of China R. F. LAMBERT. Member Association of Port Authorities Lingnon University FRANK S. WILSON, American Exchange Student. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's School Days in Hawaii PROF. SHAO CHANG LEE, University of Hawaii Painted Mask of the Chinese Stage GLADYS LI HEE, Student of Chinese Drama Chinese Foreign Study EDITORIAL on Tsing Hua University, Peiping China's Premier Agricultural College • ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Director Pan-Pacific Amazing Developments in China CAMERON FORBES, Leader American Economic Mission. Pon-Pacific Movement in China DR. KUANGSON YOUNG, Executive Secretary, Pan-Pacific Association Jane Addoms of Hull House (illustrate& ; Siam's Mongolia's mighty past I illustrated ) ; America's past and present (illus- new king (illustrated); Australia's aborigines lillustratecll ; Mexico's scientific explorations; Pelew Islands Canada, the last frontier 'illustrated ; Russia's trated); Honolulu's Pan - check list of fishes; Hawaii's Pan-Pacific Research Institution illustrated); and Occidental family life contrasted (illustrated) Japan's Pacific meeting programs; Japanese Pan-Pacific Clubs; Book Reviews of six recent publications. Published for the PAN-PACIFIC UNION, 1067 Alakeo Street HONOLULU, HAWAII $3.50 a Year 50c a Copy PAN-PACIFIC UNION 1067 Alakea Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. HON. WALTER F. FREAR, President HOWARD K. BURGESS, Treasurer DR. IGA MoRI, Vice-President WALTER F. DILLINGHAM, Chairman Finance C. K. At, Vice-President Committee ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Executive Director DR. FREDERICK G. KRAUSS, Chairman Pan- ANN Y. SATTERTHWAITE, Secretary Pacific Research Institution, RESIDENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES HoN. Jostpu B. POINDEXTER, Governor of Hawaii CAYETANO LIGOT, Former Philippine Labor Commis. HoN. WALTER F. FREAR, Former Governor of Hawaii; sioner charter member, Pan-Pacific Union DR. FREDERICK G. K RAUSS, Director, Agricultural Ex- oN. G. FRED WRIGHT, Mayor of Honolulu tension Division, University of Hawaii WILFRED C. TSUKIYAMA, City and County Attorney DR. SHAO CHANG LEE, Professor of Chinese Language and History, University of Hawaii JOHN H. WILSON, Postmaster, Honolulu PROF. JOHN MASON YOUNG, C.E., Professor of En- DR. DAVID L. CRAWFORD, President, University of Ha- gineering, University of Hawaii waii DR. IGA MORI, Member Advisory Committee, Institute OREN E. LONG, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Pacific Relations W. P. W. TURNER, Consul for Great Britain WALTER F. DILLINGHAM, President, Oahu Railway and J. W. WALDRON, Consul for Chile Land Co. KING CHAD Mu', Consul-General for China HUGH C. TENNENT, C.P.A., President, Tennent, PROF. IRVING 0. PECKER, Consul for France Greaney & Wallace TEIJIRO TAMURA, Consul-General for Japan GEORGE P. DEN isoN, Chairman, Hawaii Tourist Bureau C. A. MACKINTOSH, Consul for The Netherlands C. K. At, Treasurer, City Mill Co., Ltd.; charter mem- DR. L. A. R. GASPAR, JR., Consul for Peru ber, Pan-Pacific Union ALBERT A. ARAujo, Consul-General for Portugal A. D. CASTRO, President, Union Trust Co., Ltd. MRS. ARTHUR L. ANDREWS, Executive Committee, Pan- SENATOR JOSEPH R. FARRINGTON, President, Honolulu Pacific Women's Association Star-Bulletin, Ltd. MRS. GEORGE P. CASTLE, Vice-President, Honolulu YASUTARO SOGA, Editor, Nippu Jiji Young Women's Christian Association ALEXANDER HumE FORD, Executive Director, Pan-Pa- JOHN C. LANE, Alii Ai Moku, Order of Karnehameha cific Union; charter member TAI SUNG LEE, Executive Secretary, Korean Student Christian Movement of Hawaii ANN Y. SATTERTHWAITE, Secretary, Pan-Pacific Union HONORARY TRUSTEES FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United GEN. I,AZARO CARDENAS, President of Mexico States of America Jim DR. B. C. DE JONGE, Governor-General of the CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, Chief Justice, United States Netherlands East Indies Supreme Court MRS. T. E. TAYLOR, Chairman, New Zealand Pan-Pa- JoHN W. TROY, Governor of Alaska cific Women's Association, Christchurch FRANK W. MURPHY, Governor-General of the Philip- MANUEL QUEZON, President, Pan-Pacific Association of pines the Philippines HERBERT HOOVER, Former President, United States of America W. FORGAN-SMITH, Premier of Queensland DR. L. S. RowE, Director-General, Pan-American HIS MAJESTY ANANDA, King of Siam Union MRS. HELEN WILSON, Postmistress, Pago Pago, Ameri- J. A. LYONS, Prime Minister of Australia can Samoa T. D. TATTULLO, Premier of British Columbia, Canada PRINCESS DAVID KAWANANAKOA, Hawaii Nei CHIANG KAI-SHEK, Chairman of China's National Mili- MRS. FRANCIS M. SWANZY, Honorary President, Pan- tary Commission. Pacific Women's Association, for Island of Oahu DR. H. H. KUNG, President, Pan-Pacific Association of ALFRED W. CARTER, Trustee, Parker Ranch, for Island China of Hawaii SIR MURCHISON FLETCHER, Governor of Fiji SENATOR ELSIE H. WiLcox, for Island of Kauai H. E. RENE ROBIN, Governor-General of French Indo- China SENATOR HARRY A. BALDWIN, for Island of Maui PRINCE I. TOKUGAWA, Former President, House of SENATOR GEORGE P. COOKE, for Island of Molokai Peers, Japan The Mid-Pacific Magazine Including the Pan-Pacific Bulletin and the Journal of the Pan-Pacific Research Institution Published quarterly by Alexander Hume Ford for the Pan-Pacific Union, 1067 Alakea Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Post Office. By subscription $3.50 a year mailed to any address in the world. Single copies 50 cents. From the Honolulu Star-Bulletin press. VOL. XLVI I APRIL-JUNE, 1935 NUMBER 2 Today's China* By KING-CHAU MUI Consul General for China in Hawaii (See Plate VII) APOLEON once likened China porting of these movements is usually to a sleeping lion and warned neglected. As a result, the picture that his countrymen to let the lion some people have of China is one of a N sleep, for fear that if awak- land of hopeless backwardness. They ened the lion would shake the world. are not aware that beneath the super- These remarks of the diminutive Cor- ficial phases reported in newspapers, sican giant may be an exaggeration, there is a China of exquisite beauty and but to keen observers in Chinese affairs, undeniable progress. During the last that country is beginning to take its thirty years, China has made rapid part in shaping the political and com- strides toward modernization, not only mercial life of the family of nations. in the field of economics, but in educa- China, as you know, has an area of tion, industry, government, in practi- over four million square miles contain- cally every activity of life. ing more than one fifth of the inhabi- It is difficult to enumerate all the tants of the globe and possessing different phases of economic progress tremendously rich resources. For this that are evident throughout the country reason she commands a very important today. Most important of these is the position in the Pacific area. China has development of communications. New been interpreted in a thousand and one airways, railways, roads, canals, ships ways by various observers. But whether are being built. The arrival of the giant their interpretation has been reasonable clipper ship in Honolulu a few days or ridiculous, one thing seems to be ago, and the establishment of the Pan- certain—China will eventually play an American Airways service from San important role in world affairs. Francisco to Canton marks a great Most often it is the spectacular development in aerial transportation. events that are reported in the news- The first lap of the commercial air papers of the world. The more impor- route between the United States and tant developments such as the evolu- China has thus been blazed. Pan Ameri- tionary transition in society, the slow can Airways, by the way, holds 45 per changes of customs, the gradual assimi- cent of the stock of the China National lation of western ideas and its adoption Aviation Co. of scientific methods, in fact, real prog- A country so vast and with so many ress of all sorts, are ignored. The re- geographical complexities as China naturally is greatly benefited by the * An address before the Sojourners' Club, Iolani Barracks, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 1, 1935. opening of air routes, which not only 98 MID-PACIFIC MAGAZINE, APRIL-JUNE, 1935 facilitate the carrying of mail but also there is a prospect of a five-day air mail of passengers. Formerly, because of the service from Shanghai to Berlin. As mountainous areas of the interior, trav- plans are developed, however, this eling was extremely difficult. In the service will be shortened to two days. last two years, these interior regions It is clear that commercial aviation is have been connected to the coastal cities rapidly developing. A Chinese flying of China by two air mail and passenger personnel is being trained and a start services. These are operated under the has been made towards the building of Ministry of Communications and by planes in China. There is no question the China National and the Eurasia as to the need of fostering aviation in Aviation Corporations. Before 1933 China. Planes rendered very great the air routes were confined to two services during the floods of 1931 in lines, one from S hang ha i passing carrying supplies, conducting surveys, through Nanking to Hankow, a dis- transporting officials, and in aiding res- tance of 516 miles, and the second from cue work. Business men are realizing Shanghai through Haichow, Tsingtao, the convenience of air transportation and Tientsin to Peiping, a distance of not only for travel, but also for mail. 760 miles. But during the last two years, a route from Shanghai to Canton Railroads and Highways with stops at Wenchow, Foochow, The government has also paid great Swatow and Amoy has been estab- attention to the development of rail- lished. This route covers a thousand roads and highways.