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 hope of China's resurrection from the grave of conservative stagnation. Ever since the war of 1894-1895, the Viceroys of central China, Chang Chih-tung and Liu Kun-yi, have been sending youths to Japan to study military and naval sciences, law, medicine, commerce and industry, and during the complications of 1900-1901 the Government in Tōkyō, acting through these viceroys, was able to exercise wholesome influence on the counsels of the Chinese Court. There is also a powerfully supported Japanese society under whose auspices schools have been opened at several places in China, and useful books are translated into the Chinese language and widely circulated. If events do not move too fast, China may possibly develop strength to cope with them, or at least to make some contribution to her own preservation.