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PART V
THE FUTURE OF CHINA AND OUR RELATION TO IT
XXV. IS THERE A YELLOW PERIL. . . . . . . . . .305 XXVI. FRESH
REASON TO HATE THE FOREIGNER . . .320 XXVII. HOPEFUL
SIGNS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333 XXVIII. THE PARAMOUNT DUTY OF
CHRISTENDOM. . . . .351 INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .371

List of Illustrations Facing Page Railway Station,
Paoting-fu. . . . . . . . . .Title View of Canton, Showing House
Boats. . . . . . . . 22 H. I. H. Prince Su and Attendants. . . . . . . . . 32 A
Rut in the Loess Region. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Germans Building Railway
Bridge in Shantung. . . . 56 A Shendza in Shantung. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
56 Climbing Tai-shan, the Sacred Mountain . . . . . . 70 The Grave of
Confucius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Part of the Author's Escort of Chinese
Cavalrymen. 92 Watching the Author writing in his Diary at a noon
stop A Snap Shot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 The Bund,
Shanghai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112 American Cigarette Posters on a
Chinese Bridge . .112 The Chinese Cart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130 The
Old and The New. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130 French Military Post,
Saigon . . . . . . . . . . .150 German Soldiers on the Bund,
Tien-tsin . . . . . .150 The British Legation Guard, Peking . . . . . . . .174
The Temple of Heaven, Peking . . . . . . . . . . .198 Memorial Arch, Hall
of the Classics, Peking. . . .228 Graduating Class, Presbyterian
Theological Seminary, Canton, 1904. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .268
Approach to the Imperial Palace in the Forbidden City,
Peking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320 Two of China's Great Men Yuan

Shih Kai and Chang Chih-tung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .344
Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370

PART I
Old China and its People
I
THE ANCIENT EMPIRE
HE must be dead to all noble thoughts who can tread the venerable
continent of Asia without profound emotion. Beyond any other part of
the earth, its soil teems with historic associations. Here was the
birthplace of the human race. Here first appeared civilization. Here
were born art and science, learning and philosophy. Here man first
engaged in commerce and manufacture. And here emerged all the
religious teachers who have most powerfully influenced mankind, for it
was in Asia in an unknown antiquity that the Persian Zoroaster taught
the dualism of good and evil; that the Indian Gautama 600 years before
Christ declared that self-abnegation was the path to a dreamless
Nirvana; that less than a century later the Chinese Lao-tse enunciated
the mysteries of Taoism and Confucius uttered his maxims regarding
the five earthly relations of man, to be followed within another century
by the bold teaching of Mencius that kings should rule in righteousness.
In Asia it was 1,000 years afterwards that the Arabian Mohammed
proclaimed himself as the authoritative prophet. There the God and
Father of us all revealed Himself to Hebrew sage and prophet in the
night vision and the angelic form and the still, small voice; and in Asia
are the village in which was cradled and the great altar of the world on
which was crucified the Son of God.
We of the West boast of our national history. But how brief is our day
compared with the succession of world powers which Asia has seen.
Chaldea began the march of kingdoms 2,200 years before Christ. Its
proud king, Chedor-laomer, ruled from the Persian Gulf to the sources

of the Euphrates, and from the Zagros Mountains to the Mediterranean.
Then Egypt