Occidental Interpretations Of The Far Eastern Problem (Paperback)


OCCIDENTAL INTER PRETATIONS OF THE FAR EASTERN PROBLEM Lectures on the Harris Foundation 1925 By H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C. B. E. n Editor of The Peking and Tientsin Times and of The China Year Book JULEAN ARNOLD American Commercial Attache at Peking, China HENRY KITTREDGE NORTON Author of The Far Eastern Republic of Siberia THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO ILLINOIS COPYRIGHT 1926 BY THE UNIVERSITY ov CHICAGO All Rights Reserved Published January 1926 Composed and Printed By The University of Chicago Press Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A. PREFACE The Harris Foundation Lectures at the Uni versity of Chicago have been made possible through the generosity of the heirs of Norman Wait Harris and Emma Gale Harris, who donated to the University a fund to be known as The Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation on January 27, 1923. The letter of gift contains the following statement It is apparent that a knowledge of world-affairs was never of more importance to Americans than today. The spirit of distrust which pervades the Old World is not without its effect upon our own country. How to combat this disintegrat ing tendency is a problem worthy of the most serious thought. Perhaps one of the best methods is the promotion of a better understanding of other nations through wisely directed educational effort. The purpose of the Foundation shall be the promotion of a better understanding on the part of American citizens of the other peoples of the world, thus establishing a basis for improved international relations and a more enlightened world-order. The aim shall always be to give accurate information, not to propagate opinion. In fulfilment of this object a First Institute was held at the Universityof Chicago in the sum mer of 1924, and the public lectures delivered by PREFACE the foreign scholars invited to the Institute were published Germany in Transition by Herbert Kraus The Stabilization of Europe, by Charles De Visscher and The Occident and the Orient by Sir Valentine Chirol. For the Second Institute, held in the summer of 1925, the topic selected for discussion was the Far East., and again the public lectures delivered as part of the work of the Institute are published in essentially their original form. This volume, en titled Occidental Interpretations of the Far Eastern Problem, gives the lectures of Mr. H. G. W. Wood head, C. B. E., an Englishman of twenty years residence in China where he was editor of the Peking and Tientsin Times and of the China Year Book of Mr. Julean Arnold, American Consul or Commercial Attach in China since 1902, and editor of the Commercial Year Book of China and of Mr. H. K. Norton, author of The Far Eastern Republic of Siberia. A second volume, Oriental Interpretations of the Far Eastern Problem, contains the lectures of Count Michimasa Soyeshima, grad uate of Cambridge University, England, and form er member of the House of Peers of Japan and of Dr. P. W. Kuo, President of Southeastern Uni versity, Nanking, China. August i, 1925 C 11 Vlll J TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE PROBLEMS OF PRESENT-DAY CHINA i By H. G. W. Woodhead I. THE CHINESE REPUBLIC 3 II. PRESENT STATE OF CHINA 49 III. EXTRATERRITORIALITY 81 IV. CHINAS FOREIGN RELATIONS 129 CHINAS ECONOMIC RESOURCES . 177 By Julean Arnold THE RUSSIANS IN THE FAR EAST 201 By Henry Kittredge Norton APPENDIX LEADING STATESMEN OF MODERN CHINA .... 233 INDEX 249 . PROBLEMS OF PRESENT-DAY CHINA By H. G. W.WOODHEAD I THE CHINESE REPUBLIC I have been asked to give you in my first lecture a survey of the history of the Chinese Republic. It must, if compressed into a single lecture, neces sarily be brief, and in some respects inadequate. The Revolution as a result of which China was transformed from an absolute monarchy to a nom inal republic broke out in the autumn of 1911, but to understand why it occurred, and why it was successful, it is necessary to refer briefly to the events of the previous thirteen years...

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OCCIDENTAL INTER PRETATIONS OF THE FAR EASTERN PROBLEM Lectures on the Harris Foundation 1925 By H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C. B. E. n Editor of The Peking and Tientsin Times and of The China Year Book JULEAN ARNOLD American Commercial Attache at Peking, China HENRY KITTREDGE NORTON Author of The Far Eastern Republic of Siberia THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO ILLINOIS COPYRIGHT 1926 BY THE UNIVERSITY ov CHICAGO All Rights Reserved Published January 1926 Composed and Printed By The University of Chicago Press Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A. PREFACE The Harris Foundation Lectures at the Uni versity of Chicago have been made possible through the generosity of the heirs of Norman Wait Harris and Emma Gale Harris, who donated to the University a fund to be known as The Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation on January 27, 1923. The letter of gift contains the following statement It is apparent that a knowledge of world-affairs was never of more importance to Americans than today. The spirit of distrust which pervades the Old World is not without its effect upon our own country. How to combat this disintegrat ing tendency is a problem worthy of the most serious thought. Perhaps one of the best methods is the promotion of a better understanding of other nations through wisely directed educational effort. The purpose of the Foundation shall be the promotion of a better understanding on the part of American citizens of the other peoples of the world, thus establishing a basis for improved international relations and a more enlightened world-order. The aim shall always be to give accurate information, not to propagate opinion. In fulfilment of this object a First Institute was held at the Universityof Chicago in the sum mer of 1924, and the public lectures delivered by PREFACE the foreign scholars invited to the Institute were published Germany in Transition by Herbert Kraus The Stabilization of Europe, by Charles De Visscher and The Occident and the Orient by Sir Valentine Chirol. For the Second Institute, held in the summer of 1925, the topic selected for discussion was the Far East., and again the public lectures delivered as part of the work of the Institute are published in essentially their original form. This volume, en titled Occidental Interpretations of the Far Eastern Problem, gives the lectures of Mr. H. G. W. Wood head, C. B. E., an Englishman of twenty years residence in China where he was editor of the Peking and Tientsin Times and of the China Year Book of Mr. Julean Arnold, American Consul or Commercial Attach in China since 1902, and editor of the Commercial Year Book of China and of Mr. H. K. Norton, author of The Far Eastern Republic of Siberia. A second volume, Oriental Interpretations of the Far Eastern Problem, contains the lectures of Count Michimasa Soyeshima, grad uate of Cambridge University, England, and form er member of the House of Peers of Japan and of Dr. P. W. Kuo, President of Southeastern Uni versity, Nanking, China. August i, 1925 C 11 Vlll J TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE PROBLEMS OF PRESENT-DAY CHINA i By H. G. W. Woodhead I. THE CHINESE REPUBLIC 3 II. PRESENT STATE OF CHINA 49 III. EXTRATERRITORIALITY 81 IV. CHINAS FOREIGN RELATIONS 129 CHINAS ECONOMIC RESOURCES . 177 By Julean Arnold THE RUSSIANS IN THE FAR EAST 201 By Henry Kittredge Norton APPENDIX LEADING STATESMEN OF MODERN CHINA .... 233 INDEX 249 . PROBLEMS OF PRESENT-DAY CHINA By H. G. W.WOODHEAD I THE CHINESE REPUBLIC I have been asked to give you in my first lecture a survey of the history of the Chinese Republic. It must, if compressed into a single lecture, neces sarily be brief, and in some respects inadequate. The Revolution as a result of which China was transformed from an absolute monarchy to a nom inal republic broke out in the autumn of 1911, but to understand why it occurred, and why it was successful, it is necessary to refer briefly to the events of the previous thirteen years...

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March 2007

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