1.3.02026-08-26brevRådata513128arkivdokumentStatens museer för världskultur - Östasiatiska museetSMVK-OMDokumenthttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/513128E1A-18_0150uncertain, After my return to Sweden I published by the end of last year a volume in Swedish of which I take the liberty to send you a copy. The title of the book is: Under brinnande krig (Under burning war). The second part pages 169-382 describes the renaissance of Ohina and the war with Japan. I have tried to make a special study of the important developments in China counting from Chiang Kai-sheks Northern Expedition in 1926 up to the present day. This second part of the book is now being translated to be published by Kegan Paul in London. In some additional pages I summarize the eventa of the last four montha ending with an appeal for support from the democratie great powers. I think that my little volume which will be sold at the price of approximately 10/6 d will be a plea for the case of China and that 1t should be placed in the hands of statemen and politicians in U.3.A. and in Great Britain. But I am not certain that people of that kind ya von hide rg this and for jthle 5 tg I suggested in a letter FE Fong Wen-Hao, (to ask the » Chungking Government to give a grant of 400 Pounds sterling for th bris P KA thousand copies half in U:S.A. and half in Creat Britain. Dr. Wong ee distribution of something like one replied that he would support such a scheme that had to be presented to Dr. H.H. Kung, the Minister of finance. On the other hand I have approached the publisher who is willing to grant a fosrodglrn SEP ökar the text will be presented to you and to the ambansador- An London/for your examination and your approval of the book as fit to serve the cause of China. May I hope to count upon your support for this distribution scheme? The two ked to provide us with the addresses but we embassies will then b think that the distribution should be left in the hands of the publisherStockholm the 4th of March 1939, His Excellency Or. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador to U.S.A. Chinese Embasey, Fashington. Dear Doctor Hu Shih, After nine years” absence from the Far East I returned to Shanghai by the end of November 1936 and stayed in the Far Fast until the midst of 1938. In the early part of December 1936 I went for the first time to Nanking and met there Dr. Wong Wen-Hao, the General Secretary of the Executive Yuan. He told me about the details of the premature death of W.K. Ting. Jm March and April I stayed several weeks in Nanking lecturing in universiti ind other institutions, and during this time I became fully acquainted with the remarkable renaissance which China was undergoing in practically every department of national life and which promised a glorious future to The Middle Kingdom, Alas, in the following summer broke out that terrible conflict which is still raging and the end of which is still distant and OfsdaTillverkad1939image/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/tn/10386720/E1A-18_0150a.jpghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/zoom/10386719/E1A-18_0150a.jpghttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by-nc-ndÖstasiatiska museetStatens museer för världskulturimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/tn/10386724/E1A-18_0150b.jpghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/zoom/10386723/E1A-18_0150b.jpghttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by-nc-ndÖstasiatiska museetStatens museer för världskulturhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkiv/204097http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/html/513128http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/xml/513128http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/rdf/513128