Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China/The Ellis Kadoorie Chinese Schools Society
THE ELLIS KADOORIE CHINESE SCHOOLS SOCIETY.—This society, whose work extends through Hongkong, Canton, and Shanghai, was formed at the suggestion of the well-known merchant whose name it bears. Its chief object is to overcome the difficulty felt by the Chinese poor of obtaining a sound education on Western lines, and at the same time to see that the Chinese language itself is taught. Six schools have been opened—one in Hongkong, two in Canton, and three in Shanghai—having, in all, over a thousand pupils. The work is carried on by English masters, assisted by a competent staff of Anglo-Chinese teachers, and the curriculum embraces a wide range of subjects, from rudimentary consonantal sounds to higher and commercial arithmetic, map-drawing, history, and translation. The Hongkong school is situated in the neighbourhood of the Government Civil Hospital.
