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[[underline]] Chapter XVIII. [[/underline]] 402.

[[underline]] Results of our Excavation at Wa Cha Hsieh. [[/underline]]
  The objects which Mr. Tung and his associates found at Wa Cha Hsieh they transported, with no small difficulty and even risk, to the Provincial Museum at T'ai-yüan. Of potsherds alone---many of them of the painted ware---there were between 7000 and 8000 specimens; and there were in addition artifacts and miscellaneous finds in proportionate numbers.
  There existed at T'ai-yüan, however, no adequate facilities for the study of our finds; yet when we tried to take them on with us to Peiping, we met with a positive veto. Later we succeeded in bringing to the latter city a small amount of this abundance of highly informative material that we had so laboriously gathered; but even there we were not permitted to deposit it at our own headquarters, but had to store it with the Normal University, where proper facilities for its study were little better than at T'ai-yüan. As I have endeavored to show in the immediately preceding pages, we did what we could with our collections in these circumstances; but eventually we had to abandon them altogether.
  Even in this incomplete degree of success crowning our work at Wa Cha Hsieh, however, aroused extreme resentment on the part of those opposed to participation by any non-Chinese institution whatsoever in the investigation of the archaeology of China; and these individuals induced the Nanking Government to abolish altogether the Scientific Research Institute of the Peiping Normal University. They thus quite nullified our agreement for coöperative work with that organization which alone formed the legal basis for our operations (see page 377). Further, the Commission for the Preservation of Antiquities, a particularly chauvinistic body, requested the provincial government of Shansi to forbid our doing any more work in that province. Consequently we were never able to resume work at Wa Cha Hsieh, even though the people of the locality, including the owners of the site