THE COMING CHINA CLASSIC REPRINT

ISBN: 9780267413065 Géneros: HBJF Sinópsis: Excerpt from The Coming ChinaGuam Luzon and the Bashee Islands and the entire voyage across the Pacific was accomplished in seventyseven days towards the end becoming so tedious that we were very glad indeed to see the coast of China late one afternoon near the end of August and the next day to get on shore at Hong kong I stayed there only one day and a half and then went by a small steamer to Swatow where I landed early one morning and at once passed into a new phase of life that was almost inconceivably different from anything I had previously known or to tell the truth even dreamt ofWhen I recall the backwardness of China in the year 1866 and the fact that a similar appearance of unprogressiveness was a marked feature of life in that part of the world until a very few years ago and then when I note the tremendous strides the Chinese have made during a decade or so it seems as if the charge of inertia must be withdrawn and if for just and sufficient reason it is once withdrawn even for a moment the very doing so connotes a change in all things Chinese so radical that never again will it be possible to renew the charge of inertia because the motion which will have been imparted is to endure for all time But will it go on to selfdestructive acceleration or will it be wisely con trolled by the rulers and leaders of the Coming China so as to benefit the Chinese themselves and contribute to the Welfare of the whole worldAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast ma