The Far EastWritten by one of the most prolific writers on China at the turn of the century, this 1905 publication was intended as a guide for travellers rather than as a scientific study of Asian landscape and culture. Little, a well-known merchant and traveller, spent fifty years of his life exploring the Orient. The book is structured with a chapter dedicated to each region of China and the 'Dependencies' (Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan, Tibet, Indo-China and Korea), as well as Siam and Japan. Little proves himself a shrewd observer of both landscape and peoples, and the content of his work is wonderfully detailed. He manages to encompass a wide range of subjects into his survey, including natural resources, the development of railways, trade routes and meteorology, as well as a history of the land mass and populations. The book is supplemented with several maps and illustrations. |
Contents
The Empire of Japan | 16 |
Population of China | 17 |
THE NORTHERN BASIN THE YELLOW RIVER | 19 |
Coal and Iron in China | 30 |
Changes in the course of the Yellow River | 37 |
Railways in China | 43 |
North China Orographical | 44 |
North China Political | 45 |
THE SOUTHERN BASIN YUNNAN TO CANTON | 121 |
Trade Routes from Yunnan | 128 |
Geological Sections on the West River | 148 |
The Canton Delta | 153 |
Meteorology of Eastern Asia | 156 |
Encroachment of the Land on the Chihli Gulf | 163 |
PART III | 186 |
Routes from China proper to outlying Dependencies | 191 |
19 | 53 |
Growth of the Chusan Archipelago | 59 |
PART II THE PROVINCE | 69 |
The Red Basin of Szechuan | 71 |
PART III THE CHENGTU | 77 |
Bridge on the ChengtuTibetan Road crossing Irrigation | 78 |
Channel To face | 79 |
View of the Min River above Kwanhien 99 | 80 |
First Breach in the Barrage at Kwanhien | 84 |
Map of Kwanhien | 88 |
Map of Chengtu with Irrigation Channels | 89 |
Approaches to Shanghai | 105 |
The Taiping Insurrection | 109 |
THE INTERMEDIATE PROVINCES | 110 |
Polam Bridge Amoy | 120 |
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