ABSTRACT
During the ten years of civil war following the decease of Yuan Shih-kai many a man, not only among the Chinese but also among China's foreign friends, wondered how long that hopeless anarchy would last. A woman with pre-eminently strong qualities has created a syncretism of Christianity and Confucianism, which one may conveniently call The New Life Movement. The object of the Central Political Institute is to train young men for an official career. With a board of governors whose president is Chiang Kai-shek himself, the aims of the institute are very multifarious. Obviously this institution has been given special instructions to exercise its influence among the non-Chinese frontier peoples, partly through a Mongol-Tibetan school with three hundred pupils, and partly through affiliated schools in some towns on the borders of Mongolia and Tibet. Attached to the college is a research institute, possessing a staff of twenty-five research-workers in social and political subjects.
