CHANGES IN CHINA
NEW LIFE MOVEMENT INFLUENCE ON POPULATION In fin address given at the fortnightly business girls' luncheon in the Milno and C'hoyce Reception Hall yesterday, tho Rev. C. J. Patchctt outlined tho history of the China Inland Mission and also spoke of the New Life Movement stnrted in China about four years Ago by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and his wife. Mr. Patchctt said that this movement was bringing tho country from its backward position to one in which its people wero now taking their place on "the platform of world affairs and wero on tho way to becoming a great nation. . Madame Chiang Kai-shek was one oi the greatest ladies in the world, and was doing a tremendous work for the uplift of the women and girls of China. Sno had been instrumental*in having tho binding of girls' feet abolished, and Chinese girls were now able to take part in all kinds of sport. Their old harem-liko life had been quite relegated to tho background.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23106, 3 August 1938, Page 6
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