China

CHINA - BY DEMETRIUS CHARLES BOULGER - WITH A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER OF RECENT EVENTS BY MAYO W. HAZELTINE

I DEDICATE THIS SHORT HISTORY OF CHINA TO SIR HALLIDAY MACARTNEY, K.C.M.G. AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF PERSONAL RESPECT AND ADMIRATION FOR ONE WHO HAS MAINTAINED THE RIGHT OF CHINA TO BE TREATED BY THE GOVERNMENTS OF EUROPE WITH THE DIGNITY AND CONSIDERATION THAT BECOME A GREAT EMPIRE. - IF TO LORD MACARTNEY WE OWE THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN AUDIENCE OF THE EMPEROR OF CHINA ON THE SAME CONDITIONS AS THOSE ON WHICH FOREIGN AMBASSADORS ARE RECEIVED AT EUROPEAN COURTS, TO SIR HALLIDAY MACARTNEY A SCION OF THE SAME FAMILY CHINA OWES MUCH OF THE SUCCESS THAT HAS ATTENDED HER DIPLOMACY IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES - CHAP. - I. THE EARLY AGES - II. THE FIRST NATIONAL DYNASTY - III. A LONG PERIOD OF DISUNION - IV. THE SUNGS AND THE KINS - V. THE MONGOL CONQUEST OF CHINA - VI. KUBLAI AND THE MONGOL DYNASTY - VII. THE MING DYNASTY - VIII. THE DECLINE OF THE MINGS - IX. THE MANCHU CONQUEST OF CHINA - X. THE FIRST MANCHU RULER - XI. THE EMPEROR KANGHI - XII. A SHORT REIGN AND THE BEGINNING OF A LONG ONE - XIII. KEEN LUNG'S WARS AND CONQUESTS - XIV. THE COMMENCEMENT OF EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE - XV. THE DECLINE OF THE MANCHUS - XVI. THE EMPEROR TAOUKWANG - XVII. THE FIRST FOREIGN WAR - XVIII. TAOUKWANG AND HIS SUCCESSOR - XIX. THE SECOND FOREIGN WAR - XX. THE TAEPING REBELLION - XXI. THE REGENCY - XXII. THE REIGN OF KWANGSU - THE WAR WITH JAPAN AND SUBSEQUENT EVENTS - THE FUTURE OF CHINA - LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

CHAPTER I - THE EARLY AGES

CHAPTER II - THE FIRST NATIONAL DYNASTY

CHAPTER III - A LONG PERIOD OF DISUNION

CHAPTER IV - THE SUNGS AND THE KINS

CHAPTER V - THE MONGOL CONQUEST OF CHINA

CHAPTER VI - KUBLAI AND THE MONGOL DYNASTY

CHAPTER VII - THE MING DYNASTY