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Missionaries and Reform Institutions in Modern China - China and the Christian Colleges 1850–1950. By Lutz Jessie Gregory. Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London, 1971. Pp. xiii, 575. $16.00, £7.60. - Social Reformers in Urban China: The Chinese Y.M.C.A., 1895–1926. By S. Garrett Shirley. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1970. Pp. 221. $7.50.

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2 Paul, A. Cohen, China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antforeignism, 1860–1870 (Cambridge, Mass., 1963),Google Scholar

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4 My own feeling is that the conclusions in this part would prove valid, if applied to higher education as a whole. But one would first want to check some sources not used by Lutz, for example, the very rich set of materials on Chinese higher education in the 1930s and during the war with Japan, recently reproduced by the Center for Chinese Research Materials of the Association of Research Libraries in Washington, D.C.Google Scholar

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8 For example, the mass education program and other projects described by James, Thomson Jr, in While China Faced West: American Reformers in Nationalist China, 1928–1937 (Cambridge, Mass., 1969).Google Scholar