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Where Half The World Is Waking Up
The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

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VIII. Manchuria: Fair and Fertile 70

Some First-hand Stories of the Russo-Japanese War

A Bit of History with a Lesson

The Site of the World's Next Great War

Manchuria: Fair and Fertile

Fat Harvests of Food, Feed, and Fuel

A Land Where Everybody "Knows Beans"

Golden Opportunities for Stock-raising

Better Plows and Level Culture

Graves as Thick as Corn Shocks


IX. Where Japan Is Absorbing an Empire 78

Manchuria the One Great Oriental Empire Not Yet Developed

Its Strategic Importance

Why the "Open Door" Concerns Us All

Japan's Shrewd Policies {xiii}

Contempt of Chinese Authority

Japan at Home vs. Japan in Manchuria

How the Open Door Policy Was Violated

Will Manchuria Go the Way of Korea?

A Bit of Chinese Wit and Wisdom

Truth Is in the Interest of Peace.


X. Light from China on Problems at Home 93

A Chinese Martyr-Hero

The Most Tremendous Moral Achievement of Recent Times

A Lesson for America

Putting Officials on Salaries

Money Changers and Title Changers

Making Education Practical

The Parcels Post and Tariff Reform.


XI. The New China: Awake and at Work 102

The Coming National Parliament

The Successful War Against Opium

China's Right-about-face in Education

Building Up an Army

Attacking the Graft System

Railroads, Posts, and Telegraphs

America's Relations with China.


XII. A Trip into Rural China 116

The Camels from Mongolia

Strange Traffic and Travel in Nankou Pass

The Great Wall of China

Surprisingly Progressive Farming Methods.


XIII. From Peking to the Yangtze-Kiang 123

Street Life in Peking

History That Is History

Martyrdoms That Have Enriched the World

Average Wages 15 to 18 Cents a Day

Homes Without Firesides

All China a Vast Cemetery

Keeping on Good Terms with Dragons

The Blessings of Our Alphabet

Confucius as a Moral Teacher

My Friendship with a Descendant of Confucius.


XIV. Sidelights on Chinese Character and Industry 132

Healthy Public Sentiment

Slavery and Foot-binding Still Practised

"Big Feet No B'long Pretty"

The Popularity of a No. 2 Wife

The Virtue That Is Next to Godliness Largely Disregarded

Some Discredited Americans Discovered Abroad

A 600-Mile Trip on the Yangtze {xiv} River

An Interview with Wu Ting Fang

Farming on the Yangtze

Shanghai Factory Laborers Paid 12 Cents a Day.


XV. Farewell to China 142

A City of 2,000,000 People Without a Vehicle

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