In Shenmu County, Shensi Province in the north-western part of China, a medical school for barefoot doctors offers a two year programme.

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And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.

Round Tsing-hae or Kokonor dwell some small tribes of Hoshoits, Choros, Khoits, Tourgouths, and Kalkas, divided into twenty-nine standards. These are governed by a Tseangkeun or General, who resides at Se-ning-foo in Kansuh.