The Opening of China, a Drama in Five Acts--God in
History--Prologue
ACT 1--The Opium War
(Note on the Tai-ping Rebellion)
ACT 2--The "Arrow" War
ACT 3--War with France
ACT 4--War with Japan
ACT 5--The Boxer War
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XXVIII. The Russo-Japanese War
XXIX. Reform in China
XXX. Viceroy Chang
XXXI. Anti-foreign Agitation
XXII. The Manchus, the Normans of China
APPENDIX
I. The Agency of Missionaries in the Diffusion of Secular
Knowledge in China
II. Unmentioned Reforms
III. A New Opium War
INDEX
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PART I
THE EMPIRE IN OUTLINE
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THE AWAKENING OF CHINA
CHAPTER I
CHINA PROPER
_Five Grand Divisions--Climate--Area and Population--The Eighteen
Provinces_
The empire consists of five grand divisions: China Proper, Manchuria,
Mongolia, Turkestan, and Tibet. In treating of this huge conglomerate
it will be most convenient to begin with the portion that gives
name and character to the whole.
Of China Proper it may be affirmed that the sun shines nowhere on
an equal area which combines so many of the conditions requisite
for the support of an opulent and prosperous people. Lying between
18 deg. and 49 deg. north latitude, her climate is alike exempt from the
fierce heat of the torrid zone and the killing cold of the frigid
regions.
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