Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . s, it became a great central stationfor the work of Protestant missions, and is at the present time oneof the most important mission points in China. The natives of thecity are noted for their friendliness toward foreigners. It was thefirst city in China to have a flour-mill, but this was killed by officialoppression. The likin, or transit taxes, are heavier ab
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . s, it became a great central stationfor the work of Protestant missions, and is at the present time oneof the most important mission points in China. The natives of thecity are noted for their friendliness toward foreigners. It was thefirst city in China to have a flour-mill, but this was killed by officialoppression. The likin, or transit taxes, are heavier about Arnoythan any other port of China, and as a result no foreign goods everget farther than twenty miles into the interior. Travelers in China discredit the statistics showing the enor-mous town population of the Empire. A prominent Chinesetraveler says : In traveling through China the circumstance that producedthe deepest impression was the density of town population. Theusually conceived picture is one where the population has grownto the actual limits of the town. While the portion of China Iinspected is small as compared with the whole, nevertheless the por-tions were certainly typical and contain the great centers of popu-.
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