Excerpt from The Chinese Crisis From Within Many things in the book will be new to the majority of English readers, ag. The fact that the population of China is not homogeneous, the rapid progress of western ideas and methods amongst the Chinese in recent times, and the skilful way in which the Court of Pekin has played all these years with European diplomacy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art 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 majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.