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[[underlined]] Chapter XVIII. [[/underlined]] 374.

too clearly by their actions, attitudes, and demands that what they desired was not genuine coöperation [[underlined]] with [[/underlined]] us but merely a substantial subsid[[y?]]  [[underlined]] from [[/underlined]] us, to be expended as they saw fit and without their giving us the slightest credit in return. I therefore decided, albeit with reluctance and hesitation, not to extend further our "working-agreement" with them. When I asked, however, for the promised reports and the rendition of our own photographs, in the one instance I was unable to obtain anything usable, while in the other, Mr. Fu Ssŭ-nien 傅斯年, then head of the National Research Institute of History and Philology (that branch of the Academia Sinica with which we were obliged to deal), had the impertinence to demand, before he would turn them over to us, [[superscript]] (333) [[/superscript]] that we give him
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[[superscript]] (333) [[/superscript]]    During my absence from China, the local branch of the National Research Institute had allowed Mr. Tung space in its laboratories and storage-rooms in Peiping for developing, printing, and storing the pho-tographs that he had taken of the work and finds at the An-yang site. It consequently had possession and control of both our negatives and our prints.
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a written pledge not to publish them without his permission. [[superscript]] (334) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (334) [[/superscript]]  The Academia Sinica has never, so far as I am aware, made the slightest public acknowledgement either of our coöperation our of our financial support in connection with the earlier phases of the work done at An-yang.
    The interesting light thrown on the Shang Dynasty and its civilization by the excavations at and near An-yang has frequently been described, notably by Dr. H. G. Creel, of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, in his [[underlined]] The Birth of China [[/underlined]] (Lond., 1936), and his [[underlined]] Studies in Early Chinese Culture [[/underlined]] (Baltimore, 1937).
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[[underlined]] Southwestern Shansi Again. [[/underlined]]
     Meanwhile, foreseeing the failure of our well-meant efforts to coöperate effectively with the local representative of the Academia Sinica, during the summer and early autumn of 1930 I turned my thoughts to the possibility of our doing work with some other Chinese institution; for independent work on our own part was, under the existing Chinese laws, quite out of the question

Transcription Notes:
Have added the y to subsidy that is cut off. As its a best guess I've transcribed it [[?]].