The Truth About the Chinese Republic

WOODHEAD, H. G. W.

Verlag: Hurst and Blackett. (circa1925)., London., 1925

Beschreibung

Portrait frontispiece, 287pp, appendix, first and last leaves are faintly foxed, neat written name of a prior owner on the half-title, spine a little sunned but a firm and tight copy. "In the following pages an attempt is made to reveal the facts regarding the more important issues which have arisen between China and the Treaty Powers as a result of the recent disturbances in that country. It seems to be the fashion, nowadays, in some circles, to regard every claim made, or right exercised, by the foreign Powers in China as "imperialistic" or unreasonable. It does not seem to be generally understood that the so-called "unequal Treaties" constituted the only means, at the time at which they were imposed, of securing for foreign residents in China reasonable security for their persons, their property and their trade. . . . This work was written with no feeling of hostility towards the Chinese, among whom the writer is proud to number many close friends. He believes that it is essential that the truth about the more important of China's international problems should be widely known, and that no real service would be done to China by ignoring stubborn and irrefutable facts when the question of treaty-revision is seriously taken up. The labour expended upon writing this volume during a brief furlough will be amply rewarded if it contributes to the discussion of China's problems on a basis of reality. It is easy enough for the arm-chair critic or the sentimentalist at home to urge the scrapping of existing Treaties, and the relinquishment of the privileges certain foreigners at present enjoy. These people would probably take a very different view if they had lived for any length of time in China, and acquired a first-hand knowledge of the actual situation in that country. And I cannot believe that they are doing any real service to China, or to their own countrymen, by creating the impression that the British and American publics have completely succumbed to Chinese nationalist and Bolshevik propaganda." From the preface. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 168389

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Truth About the Chinese Republic

Verlag: Hurst and Blackett. (circa1925)., London.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1925