Who's who in China; containing the pictures and biographies of China's best known political, financial, business and professional men

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give the names of most of the hest known men in the country. Persons familiar with China, upon glancing through this book Others will say, "Why is so-and-so will say, "How did he get in?" not included in a book of this kind?" We answer, both of these questions by saying that we have done the best we could, knowing that there may be names in the book which might have been omitted and that there are many persons in China whose names should have been included. Practically all of these pictures and biographies have appeared originally in the pages of the China Weekly Review during the We have tried to bring them all up to date, but past eight years. this has constituted a serious problem in view of the frequent internal political changes which always play havoc with biographical The civil war of September, 1924, forced the revision of sketches. many of the biographies and delayed for several months the
publication of this volume. "How did the publishers of the China Weekly Review question is a sketches?" This biographical obtain these which many will ask and a reply is in order: First, most of those in official life were obtained from records in Peking and in this connection we desire to acknowledge the services of Messrs. ...