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CHAPTER XXLMISSION PRESSES.AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION PRESS,SHANGHAI./ESTABLISHED in 1844 in Macao, removed to Ning-VJL po in 1845, and to Shanghai in 1860. Presentsuperintendent, Rev. G. F. Fitch, D.D. The Chinese workmen number fully two hundred, and theforeign staff amount to twelve.The premises in Peking Road are used for offices,bookroom, and godown. The printing works, erected in1902-3 on North Szechuen Road extension, are devotedto all phases of publishing effort, including book-binding,type-casting, and photo-engraving. The average annualoutput during the last five years has been fully ninetyfourmillions of pages.The Chinese publications of the Press are mainlyalong the lines of hymn-books, catechisms, commentaries and devotional works for the Chinese Christians,and tracts, booklets, etc., for evangelistic effort. Theaim has been, however, not to do so much publicationwork for itself as to be an efficient aid in printing theworks of the Bible, tract, medical, and other publishingsocieties engaged in the preparation and disseminationof Christian literature.In the bi-lingual department a special feature hasbeen the printing of dictionaries and other helps to language study.THE METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE,SHANGHAI.This institution represents the union in 1902 forpublishing purposes of the Methodist Episcopal Churchand the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Revs. W.