If anyone wishes to know how and why China has
made progress in putting her house in order during the past ten years, he must read the volumes of Mr. T'ang Leang-li's well-known series en- titled China Today. Of these, Recon- struction in China (Regan Paul, 218.) is perhaps the most important ; for in it the whole process of Chinese revival is described by those who have contributed to it, in political reform, in economic organisation, in public health and in culture. No other volume covers the ground so completely or so well ; and by its intrinsic merit it stands out above the flood of ephemeral writing now pouring from the printing presses about 'the Far Fast. The companion volume, The New Social Order in China (Regan Paul, 15s.), supplies the intellectual' foundations of the same movement and traces the course of Chinese thought during the whole revolutionary period. It is written by Mr. T'ang himself and bears the authentic mark of his mind and pen. Along with them Mr. T'ang presents China's New Currency System (Regan Paul, 7s. 6d.) in which is ex- plained the problem which confronted the Chinese Government when the new currency policy was adopted in 1985. The first two books are of wide general interest, the third more par- ticularly addressed to the student of finance.
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