2 We say ‘re‐established’ because, without counting the period of Jean de Montcorvin in the Middle Ages, there had been bishoprics at Peking and Nanking since the seventeenth century, until they were eliminated by the spreading of the system of Vicars Apostolic last century.

3 Excluding, of course, the specifically African societies like the White Fathers and the African Missions of Lyons.

4 Mgr Kong, although he was taught by the Jesuits, does not belong to the Society of Jesus, as many seem to think; he belongs to the diocesan clergy.

5 Bulletin de la Société des Missions étrangères de Paris, no. 91, p. 404. We are happy to note our agreement with the author on this point, though indicating respectfully that he is by no means alone in thinking this. His caricature of the missiologues and other enthusiasts for adaptation, with the aim of further discrediting them, appears less welcome to us. Other passages misinterpret obvious facts. For instance, the architectural style known as ‘Chinese Renaissance’ is due as much to the Chinese themselves as to the foreign missionaries. The Communists have sometimes used it; they insist on the value of certain traditional artistic elements and seek to appropriate to themselves the Chinese‐style artist Pai‐Shih, etc.

6 This observation, though completely Catholic, is not understood by all. The reactions to the Vie du Père Lebbe by Chanoine J. Leclercq (Casterman) shows this all too clearly.