A history of China : being the historical chapters from "The Middle kingdom" . -gaillans, 76; and Russian mission, 91. Ynngching, Shantung Promontory, 456. Yungloh, Emperor, & ; expedition againstCeylon, 63. Yunnan province, Sladens expedition to,367; the Grosvenor mission to, 371;Black Flags come from, 393; trade withTongking after French treaty, 404;ruin in, 405. ZAYTON (Chinchew) visited by FriarOdoric, 70, A HISTORY OF CHINA A HISTORY OF CHINA BEING THE HISTOEICAL CHAPTERS FEOMTHE MIDDLE KINGDOM BV THE LATE S. WELLS WILLIAMS, PBOFESSOR OF THE CHINESE LANaUAOE AND LITERATUHE IN T
A history of China : being the historical chapters from "The Middle kingdom" . -gaillans, 76; and Russian mission, 91. Ynngching, Shantung Promontory, 456. Yungloh, Emperor, & ; expedition againstCeylon, 63. Yunnan province, Sladens expedition to,367; the Grosvenor mission to, 371;Black Flags come from, 393; trade withTongking after French treaty, 404;ruin in, 405. ZAYTON (Chinchew) visited by FriarOdoric, 70, A HISTORY OF CHINA A HISTORY OF CHINA BEING THE HISTOEICAL CHAPTERS FEOMTHE MIDDLE KINGDOM BV THE LATE S. WELLS WILLIAMS, PBOFESSOR OF THE CHINESE LANaUAOE AND LITERATUHE IN TALE COLLEGE WITH A CONCLUDING CHAPTER NARRATING RECENT EVENTS BT FREDERICK WELLS WILLIAMS IKSTBT7CT0B IN ORIENTAL HISTOEY IN YALB UNIVEKSITY NEW yOEK CHARLES SCRIBNEES SONS 1897 H ^^^ COPTRIGHT, 1882 AKD 1897, Bt CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS PREFACE. The need for a good liistoi-y of China remains as unsatisfiedto-day as when The Middle Kingdom was first written lialfa century ago. This is intended neither as a reflection upontlie times in which we live, nor as a reproach to the smallband of learned men that deserve the name of Sinologues;for an age is competent to determine its own interests, and ifeducated Europe cares little for the Far East it but continuesin the traditions of tlie past; nor have scholars yet been ableto investigate the unexplored mass of Chinese printed bookswhich must supply authorities forcu31924023120342
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