ABSTRACT
The young father and clergyman, Harry Ward, had his first international experience on his journey in 1908-1909 as a travel aide to a wealthy senior Methodist Chicagoan. Although this was an absorbing educational journey around the world, some of Ward's reactions were not so profound as those he expressed on his next trip in 1924-1925. The Wards had undoubtedly read John Dewey's articles on China in the New Republic and Asia magazines in the 1920-1925 years and noted his views. Ward was able to predict almost a quarter of a century before 1949 the change that China's self-reliance could bring—the emergence of a country that could shelter one-fourth of the world's population. The empathy of the Wards with the Chinese people made them especially sensitive to the expressions and causes of anti-West feelings. As Ward studied the social situation in China he formed interesting hypotheses.
