Peking Dust
by Ellen N. La Motte
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About this eBook
- Author
- La Motte, Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold), 1873-1961
- Credits
- Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital Library)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- World War, 1914-1918 -- China
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 26162
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26162
- Release Date
- August 1, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PEKING DUST — PEKING DUST
- 2.INTRODUCTION
- 3.ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.PART I — PEKING DUST — I POOR OLD CHINA — II PEKING — III CIVILIZATION — IV RACE ANTAGONISMS — V SPHERES OF INFLUENCE — VI ON THE SACREDNESS OF FOREIGNERS — VII DONKEYS GENERALLY — VIII ADVISERS AND ADVICE — IX CHINESE HOUSES — X HOW IT'S DONE IN CHINA — XI THE LAO-HSI-KAI OUTRAGE — XII THE LAO-HSI-KAI AFFAIR — XIII THE LAO-HSI-KAI "INCIDENT"
- 7.PART II — I THE RETURN TO PEKING — II THE OPIUM SCANDAL — III THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER — IV CHINA'S COURSE CLEAR — V FEAR OF THE PLUNGE — VI A DUST-STORM — VII A BOWL OF PORRIDGE — VIII FROM A SCRAP-BOOK — IX THE GERMAN REPLY — X DUST AND GOSSIP — XI DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BROKEN — XII WALKING ON THE WALL — XIII MEETING THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA — XIV GREAT BRITAIN'S TWELVE DEMANDS — XV CONCLUSION
- 8.APPENDIXES — APPENDIX I — APPENDIX II
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