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Cover of brochure announcing the Shanghai Far Eastern Games, organized in 1915 by the YMCA as the first international athletic competition to be held in China

Page from an annual report, 1908-1919, by C. H. Robertson, including the three question "slogan" about China's participation in the Olympics. Exactly one hundred years later, these questions are all finally answered.

Athletes at the first Far Eastern Games, organized by the YMCA in Manila, Philippines, 1913.

Shot put competition from the first Far Eastern Games, organized by the YMCA in Manila, Philippines in 1913.

Events listing from preliminary announcement of the second Far Eastern Games, organized by the YMCA in 1915, and the first international athletic competition to be held in China (Shanghai.)

Souvenir pamphlet from the second Far Eastern Games, organized by the YMCA in Shanghai, 1915, the first international competition to be held in China.

Map of Shanghai showing the location of the competition grounds for the second Far Eastern Games, 1915.

Chinese baseball team from the second Far Eastern Games, Shanghai, 1915.

Results from the second Far Eastern Games, held in Shanghai, 1919, printed in a souvenir pamphlet.

Souvenir bulletin from the second Far Eastern Games, organized in Shanghai, 1915, and the first international competition to be held in China.

Photo album page showing scenes from the third Far Eastern Games, held in Tokyo, Japan in 1917.

Pamphlet from China's first national Athletic Meet, held in nanking (Nanjing) in 1910.

Page from an article describing China's first National Athletic Meet, held in Nanking (Nanjing,) 1910.

Max Exner, the first YMCA physical director in China, 1908-1912

Pole vault competition at the first National Athletic Meet, 1910.

Photo of the pole vault competition accompanying an article by YMCA physical director Max Exner in "Foreign Mail," March-April 1911:

"For some time there has been a persistent agitation in China in favor of the cutting off of the queue. The sports…

Hurdles competition at the first National Athletic meet, 1910.

Track competition at the first National Athletic Meet, 1910.

Pamphlet and report on YMCA training schools

School of Physical Education faculty, Shanghai, 1918

Article on YMCA secretaries' conference from "Tientsin Young Men," 1912.

Chinese YMCA secretaries exercising on the roof of the Beijing YMCA.

Chinese YMCA secretaries exercising on the roof of the Beijing YMCA.

Secretarial summer school pamphlet

Wang Cheng T'ing (C. T. Wang), first general secretary of the national Committee of the Chinese YMCA, 1915.

Tsao Y. S., first Chinese general secretary of a city Association (Shanghai), 1904

David Yui, national general secretary of the Chinese YMCA from 1916 to 1936.

Charles H. McCloy, YMCA Physical Director in China, 1913-1921.

Shanghai YMCA pamphlet.

YMCA secretary C. H. (Clarence Hovey) Robertson [3rd from left], who served in China from 1903 to 1931, with Chinese educator, community leader and YMCA supporter Zhang Boling (Chang Po Ling) [3rd from right], and staff.

Twelfth annual report of Tientsin (Tianjin) YMCA from "Chinese Young Men," 1907, describing the great interest in sports and athletics.

Illustration from Shanhai YMCA Department of Physical Education pamphlet, ca. 1913.

Illustration from an article describing the Shanghai YMCA field day in 1906.

Illustration of a Tientsin (Tianjin) YMCA Field Day from the report "Five Years of Progress, 1907-1912"

C. H. (Clarence Hovey) Robertson, YMCA secretary in China from 1902 to 1931

Robert Gailey, YMCA secretary in China from 1898-1930

Article on the 4th Annual Athletic contest from "Tientsin Young Men," October 1906.

Chinese educator, community leader, and YMCA supporter Zhang Boling (Chang Po Ling) and his family.

Exercises at the nanking (Nanjing) YMCA.

Article from an 1896 issue of "Tientsin YMCA Bulletin," highlighting the introduction to China of basketball, invented by the YMCA just five years earlier in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Basketball rules in China, ca. 1920

Early basketball game on the grounds of Wayland Academy. "One thousand and fifty-five invitations to see the game."

Grammar school basketball team.

Ping pong table in the game room of the Hankow (Hankou) YMCA.

"The above is a picture of the game room and reading room in our Boys Department. each afternoon after school and every evening there are from forty to eighty boys in this room at one…

Chinese language rules for Volleyball, invented by the YMCA in 1895.

Volleyball game in progress.

Spectators watch a volleyball game.

Volleyball game on the roof of the Shanghai YMCA building.

Poster for a Christian student summer camp in Hebei province, at the Temple of the Sleeping Buddha, Western Hills, Beiping, June 30 - July 6, 1932

C. H. (Clarence Hovey) Robertson, YMCA secretary in China from 1902 to 1921, demonstrating the gyroscope.

Play given by the Boys' Department Drama Club for Senior members in an open air theater in one of the suburbs of Nanking.

Evangelical campaign organized in 1914 in Beijing by YMCA secretary Sherwood Eddy.

Crowds on their way to a lecture by Sherwood Eddy as part of the evangelical campaign organized by YMCA secretary Sherwood Eddy in Beijing in 1914.

Report by YMCA secretary C. H. (Clarence Hovey) Robertson on Sherwood Eddy's 1914 evangelical campaign in Beijing

Article by Chinese educator, community leader, and YMCA supporter Zhang Boling (Chang Po Ling.)

English Bible study class in the office of YMCA secretary Philip Gillett, of advanced students in one of his English classes. "They are a fine group of boys."

Government Primary School Boys' Club, Bible Class Session, from a photo album by YMCA secretary Philip Gillett. "This class is taught in Chinese by Mr. Wang Ding and myself. Note the the crude desks."

Dr. Macklin, who has been a missionary doctor in nanking for 37 years, and a group who have just been vaccinated at the YMCA.

Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.

The banner squad furs the corner. The first banner says, "Joint cholera prevention work for all local inhabitants by the…

Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.

"The unclean way of living," followed by stretchers.

Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.

The stretchers in turn are followed by coffins.

Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.

Advertising soap as a help to achieve cleanliness and prevent cholera. Chinese and foreign companies were extended an…

Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.

Two Chinese girls on the "throne of soap."

Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley Peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927,

Another soap advertisement float.

Parade as part of a health campaign coordinated by YMCA secretary William Wesley peter, who served in China from 1913 to 1927.

Just outside the parade assembly ground, the two soap floats and Health department vans used for providing free…