Who's who of American returned students

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  • San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center Inc, 1978
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San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center Inc, 1978. Reprint edition after the first, published by Tsing Hua College in 1917; 8vo, pp. [9], ii, [3], viii, vi, 215, [1], iv, iv, [22]; four folding tables; text in Chinese and English; brown faux-leather boards, gilt title on spine; fine in slightly soiled dust jacket with closed tear to upper panel. No. 83 in the Chinese Materials Center Reprint Series. The preface to the first edition notes that it is "within the bounds of safety as well as propriety to say that it has been entirely due to [the efforts of students returning from America] that the country is being modernized." The directory provides brief biographies and credentials of each individual in both Chinese and English, with their addresses in Chinese.

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