• publisher: New York, London, The Macmillan company: Macmillan & co.,ltd
  • creator: Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox), 1877-1930
  • Keyword: Eastern question (Far East) Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905. East Asia.
  • years: 1905.
  • pages: 2 v.
  • class: DS518
  • notes: Contents.--I.Historical prologue. Six hundred miles up the Yangtsze. Hankow and the beyond. Some discourse on the Chinaman. On the Hankow-Peking railway. A hundred miles by cart. Kaifengfu, across the Yellow river and on to Peking. Trunk railways as political weapons. Peking under the foreign heel. The Chinese government and the Manchu court. The foreign services of China and their future. Three documents and sundry explanations. Tientsien, the Chihli viceroy and the present outlook. The disputed seas and the trade in contraband. Tsingtao and the Kiaochow territory. The colony of Kiaochow and the German programme. On the German railway from Tsingtao to the Shantung capital. Japan in war-time. Misrepresentations and misunderstandings. England and Japan. The heel of the Korean boot. From Fusan to Seoul by rail. Seoul, the pantomime capital.
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