The Awakening of the East
by Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu
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About this eBook
- Author
- Leroy-Beaulieu, Pierre, 1871-1915
- Title
- The Awakening of the East: Siberia—Japan—China
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- Siberia (Russia)
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61310
- Release Date
- February 3, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Awakening of the East SIBERIA—JAPAN—CHINA
- 2.PREFACE [1]
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.INTRODUCTION [5]
- 5.PART I.—SIBERIA — CHAPTER I. THE ORIGINS OF RUSSIAN EXPANSION IN SIBERIA AND THE NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COUNTRY — CHAPTER II THE LAND OF SIBERIA AND ITS INHABITANTS — CHAPTER III AGRICULTURAL SIBERIA AND THE RURAL POPULATION — CHAPTER IV MINERAL RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIES — CHAPTER V SIBERIAN COMMERCE AND THE TRANSPORT OF TEA — CHAPTER VI SIBERIAN TOWNS — CHAPTER VII IMMIGRATION — CHAPTER VIII MEANS OF COMMUNICATION IN SIBERIA — CHAPTER IX THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY — CHAPTER X THE RAILWAY THROUGH MANCHURIA — CHAPTER XI THE ALTERED RELATIONS BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE FAR EAST RESULTING FROM THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY
- 6.PART II.—JAPAN — CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN AND PAST HISTORY OF JAPAN — CHAPTER II JAPAN AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1868 — CHAPTER III MODERN JAPAN — CHAPTER IV JAPANESE INDUSTRY — CHAPTER V RURAL JAPAN — CHAPTER VI DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE COMMERCE — CHAPTER VII THE FINANCES OF JAPAN — CHAPTER VIII THE DOMESTIC POLITICS AND PARLIAMENT OF JAPAN — CHAPTER IX JAPAN’S FOREIGN POLICY AND HER MILITARY POWER — CHAPTER X THE FUTURE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN JAPAN—RELATIONS BETWEEN JAPANESE AND FOREIGNERS
- 7.PART III.—CHINA — CHAPTER I THE CHINESE PROBLEM — CHAPTER II THE CAPITAL OF CHINA — CHAPTER III THE COUNTRY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF PEKING—NUMEROUS SIGNS OF THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE — CHAPTER IV THE LITERARY AND MANDARIN CLASS—PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF THE DECADENCE OF THE EMPIRE — CHAPTER V THE CHINESE PEOPLE AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS — CHAPTER VI FOREIGNERS IN CHINA—THE ATTITUDE OF THE CHINESE TOWARDS WESTERN CIVILIZATION — CHAPTER VII THE POSITION AND WORK OF FOREIGNERS IN CHINA — CHAPTER VIII CHINA AND THE POWERS — CHAPTER IX RUSSIA, FRANCE, AND ENGLAND IN THE FAR EAST IN 1895–97 — CHAPTER X CHINA AND THE POWERS, 1897–99—‘SPHERES OF INFLUENCE,’ AND THE ‘OPEN DOOR’ — CHAPTER XI THE FUTURE OF CHINA—MAINTENANCE OR PARTITION OF THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE?
- 8.INDEX
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