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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
It is a very common thing now-a-days to meet people who are going
to "China," which can be reached by the Siberian railway in
fourteen or fifteen days. This brings us at once to the question -
What is meant by the term China? Taken in its widest sense, the
term includes Mongolia, Manchuria, Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, and
the Eighteen Provinces, the whole being equivalent to an area of
some five million square miles, that is, considerably more than
twice the size of the United States of America. But for a study of
manners and customs and modes of thought of the Chinese people, we
must confine ourselves to that portion of the whole which is known
to the Chinese as the "Eighteen Provinces," and to us as China
Proper. This portion of the empire occupies not quite two-fifths of
the whole, covering an area of somewhat more than a million and a
half square miles. Its chief landmarks may be roughly stated as
Peking, the capital, in the north; Canton, the great commercial
centre, in the south; Shanghai, on the east; and the Tibetan
frontier on the west.
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