Xu Shichang (Pinyin) or Hsu shih chang (Wade-Giles) (1855-1939) was a prominent figure of the Beiyang[?] warlords and President of the Republic of China from 1918 - 1922.
... all the writings of the mystical German-Dutch school of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and with the "Confessions" of Augustine and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's ...