RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINA

IN CHINA

CLARK UNIVERSITY ADDRESSES

NOVEMBER, 1912

EDITED BY

GEORGE H. BLAKESLEE

Professor of History, Clark University

NEW YORK

G. E. STECHERT AND COMPANY

1913

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION. Dr. George H. Blakeslee...

I. THE MEANS OF UNIFYING CHINA. Charles W. Elliot, LL.D.,

President Emeritus of Harvard University....

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II. THE EFFECT OF THE REVOLUTION UPON THE RELATIONS

BETWEEN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES. Ching-Chun

Wang, Ph.D., Assistant-Director of the Peking-Mukden

Railway, Delegate from the Republic of China to the re-

cent International Congress of Chambers of Commerce.. 19

III. THE NEW HOLY ALLIANCE FOR CHINA. Albert Bushnell Hart,

LL.D., Professor of Government in Harvard University.. 37

IV. A PLEA For Fair PLAY AND THE RECOGNITION OF THE CHINESE

REPUBLIC. Major Louis Livingston Seaman, M.D., LL.B.,

F.R.G.S., President of the China Society of America.

V. THE GENESIS OF THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION IN CHINA

FROM A SOUTH CHINA STANDPOINT. John Stuart Thom-

son, sometime Agent at Hong Kong, China, of the Pacific

Mail and Toyo Kisen Kaisha Trans-Pacific Steamship

Companies..

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VI. THE WESTERN INFLUENCE IN CHINA. Edward W. Capen,

Ph.D., Hartford School of Missions; recently on special

sociological and missionary research in the Far East......

VII. CHINA'S LOAN NEGOTIATIONS. Hon. Willard Straight, Rep-

resentative of the American Banking Group..

VIII. THE RELATION OF THE RETURNED STUDENTS TO THE CHINESE

REVOLUTION. Y. S. Tsao, Secretary of the Chinese Stu-

dents' Alliance in America...

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IX. AMERICAN AND JAPANESE DIPLOMACY IN CHINA. Masujiro

Honda, D.Litt., Tokyo, Japan; recently Editor of The

Oriental Review..

176

X. SOME OF CHINA'S PHYSICAL PROBLEMS. Charles K. Edmunds,

Ph.D., President of the Canton Christian College and Ob-

server in Charge of the Magnetic Survey of China under

the Auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington..... 181

XI. THE WESTERNIZING OF CHINESE MEDICAL PRACTICE. Charles

W. Young, M.D., Professor of Bacteriology and Pathology,

Union Medical College, Peking...

199

XII. THE OPIUM ABOLITION QUESTION. J. O. P. Bland, formerly

of the Imperial Maritime Customs, Secretary of the Shang-

hai Municipality and Times Correspondent in China...... 223

XIII. AMERICA'S BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY IN CHINA. B. Atwood

Robinson....

XIV. THE INDUSTRIAL FUTURE OF SHANSI PROVINCE. Rev. Paul

L. Corbin of Shansi Province.

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