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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

Text extracted from opening pages of book: COPYRIGHT, 1919 BY THE MAOMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotype. Published, January, 1919 Courtesy of Far Eastern Bureau. Hsu Shih-chang, elected President of the Chinese Republic, September 4, 1918. TO THE BEST OF COMPANIONS THE BRAVEST OF COMRADES WISEST OF COUNSELORS MY WIFE the war, the attention of the world will more and more shift to China and the Far East. The greatest potential market of the world lies there: the greatest need for industrial and economic develop ment is there. The Far East, in general, and China, in particular, have been profoundly affected by the war: they will be even more deeply influenced during the peace which is to follow. All of the great powers have financial interests in China; after the war, these interests will come into sharp competition and rivalry. In their relations with China and with each other, the nations will face two alternatives: on the one hand, a policy leading to an imperialism and oppression which eventually will endanger the dearly-bought world peace: on the other, a course of action based on inter national justice and the development of a democracy in the Far East that will be safe for the world. These alternatives in Asia are, and will be, the same as those which the world is facing in Europe today: ( the writer believes they should be viewed in the fight of the principles for which the larger part of mankind is now fighting and that unless this is done, on the Eastern horizon will surely gather the . dark clouds of another world-storm. In this volume accordingly, the author who has lived in China for the past three years has tried to Vlll PREFACE trace the more recent development of thislargest of the Asiatic nations, indicating some of the problems which it is now facing, especially as they appear against the background of the world-war, and attempt ing to point out some of the ultimate issues to which these problems, if they remain unsolved, will lead. To these issues the world at large cannot remain indiffer ent; and the attempt has been made in this volume to present as fairly and clearly as possible the facts of the present trans-Pacific situation. Throughout the vol ume, quotations have been made from original docu ments and statements of the press, in order to avoid, as far as possible, any subjective coloring of the facts. Further, in the interests of international har mony and good-will, the more extreme and less char acteristic utterances of the press and of publicists of the nations involved, have been omitted. To this sit uation in the Far East, it is hoped that the standards and ideals formulated by the free peoples of the world will be applied; and the writer believes that in the application of these standards and ideals will be found a solution and the only solution of problems which are of momentous consequence for the rest of the world. The author desires to express his grateful obliga tion to Professor F. Wells Williams, of Yale Univer sity, and to Dr. John E. Williams, Vice-President of Nanking University, who have given helpful advice, and made valuable criticisms of the manuscript. To the Peking Gazette, formerly under the able editorship PREFACE IX of Mr. Eugene Chen, the author is indebted for many excerpts from contemporaneous documents and articles of value. Acknowledgment is made of the permission of D. Appleton & Co. to use the summary ofTreaties Concerning the Integrity of China and Korea, and The Maintenance of the Open Door which appears in Dr. Hornbeck's volume, Contemporary Politics in the Far East; and the permission of Dodd, Mead & Co. for the use of the translation of The Memorandum of the Black Dragon Society, contained in Mr. Putnam-Weale's book, The Fight for the Republic in China. Some of the material in this book was originally pub lished in the Current History Magazine of the New York Times, and in the Evening Telegram of Portland, Oregon; acknowledgment is made of the courteous permi

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