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[[underline]] Chapter XVII. [[/underline]] 367. [[underline]] Dr. Li's Activities. [[/underline]] Thus left, with Mr. Tung, to uphold our interest in China, Dr. Li spent the next few moths at Tsing Hua College, engaged in the study of his finds in southwestern Shansi and in the preparation of his report, both in Chinese and in English. [[superscript]] (328) [[/superscript]] ------------------------- [[superscript]] (328) [[/superscript]] For his report in Chinese, see [[underline]] Bulls. Inst. Scient. Research [[/underline]], Tshing Hua College, Peking, Sept., 1927. For unavoidable reasons having to do with the conditions which have subsisted in China for several years past, the full English version has never appeared. --------------------------------- Before my departure for the United States, Dr. Li and I had of course more than once discussed our further steps in the archaeological exploration and investigation of the region where he had been working. We had thus agreed that as early/ [[insertion]] in the autumn [[/insertion]] as possible ([[underline]] i.e. [[/underline]], after the close of the rainy season), he should return to his field of operation and there establish a field-base, either at Hsi Yin Ts'un itself or at Hsia Hsien, from which to continue his work. However the renewal of civil war between the party then in power at Peking and the provincial government of Shansi prevented him from putting into effect this very meritorious and promising plan. Dr. Li therefore esssayed a task which he and I often considered but which, so far as I know, has not even yet been accomplished by anyone---that of the archaeological exploration of the valley of the Han River, in central China, known to have been an important avenue of war, trade, and migration from the earliest times. [[superscript]] (329) [[/superscript]] ------------------------- [[superscript]] (329) [[/superscript]] See pp. 334 [[underline]] sqq. [[/underline]] on the Han River and especially on its connection with the establishment of the ancient Yangtze valley state of Ch'u. --------------------------------- In pursuance of this plan, Dr. Li now proceeded by sea to Shanghai and thence up the Yangtze River to Nanking, this circuitous route being necessitated by the civil war then going on. In Nanking he held several conferences with members of the Scientific Research Institute (later the Academia Sinica), a branch of the newly established National Government.
