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PART VICHRISTIAN LITERATURECHAPTER XXXIIA BRIEF SURVEY OF CHURCH ACTIVITIES AS SEEN INCHRISTIAN PERIODICALSC. Y. ChengHistory of Periodical literature claims antiquity inPeriodical this ancient country of China. For centuriesLiterature the Peking Gazette (JR ?tt) was the one andonly paper that supplied all the important official and governmental news and information. Thepaper was circulated throughout the entire country. Butin the matter of periodical literature, as in many otherthings, the common proberb Chin pu ju I u (^ ^ #n "#),(the new is not equal to the old), proves to be sadly true.In the whole of China to-day there are only three hundrednewspapers, while in the British Empire the number isthirteen thousand, and in the United States twenty-threethousand.Modern periodical literature in China has the ChristianChurch as its leader. The Wan Kurt Knny Vao ($; ffl /& |ft),published by the Christian Literature Society, played, a veryimportant part in the enlightening of the Chinesebefore most of the modern papers were in existence.peopleTo-day there are about thirty ChristianPeriodicalsperiodicals published by Christian organizations. So far there is only one Christiandaily, one is published every ten days, three are weeklies,four are quarterlies, and all the rest are monthlies. Thesedo not include the papers published in the English language,nor those published by the various colleges and city YoungMen s Christian Associations, and other miscellaneouspapers and magazines.