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INTRODUCTION xv
PART I.—SIBERIA
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I. THE ORIGINS OF RUSSIAN EXPANSION IN SIBERIA AND THE NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COUNTRY 1
II. THE LAND OF SIBERIA AND ITS INHABITANTS 9
III. AGRICULTURAL SIBERIA AND THE RURAL POPULATION 17
IV. MINERAL RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIES 27
V. SIBERIAN COMMERCE AND THE TRANSPORT OF TEA 31
VI. SIBERIAN TOWNS 38
VII. IMMIGRATION 43
VIII. MEANS OF COMMUNICATION IN SIBERIA 56
IX. THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY 64
X. THE RAILWAY THROUGH MANCHURIA 71
XI. THE ALTERED RELATIONS BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE FAR EAST RESULTING FROM THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY 76
PART II.—JAPAN
I. THE ORIGIN AND PAST HISTORY OF JAPAN 81
II. JAPAN AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1868 97
III. MODERN JAPAN 110
IV. JAPANESE INDUSTRY 118
V. RURAL JAPAN 125
VI. DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE COMMERCE 135
VII. THE FINANCES OF JAPAN 143
VIII. THE DOMESTIC POLITICS AND PARLIAMENT OF JAPAN 154
IX. JAPAN’S FOREIGN POLICY AND HER MILITARY POWER 164
X. THE FUTURE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN JAPAN—RELATIONS BETWEEN JAPANESE AND FOREIGNERS 171
PART III.—CHINA
I. THE CHINESE PROBLEM 183
II. THE CAPITAL OF CHINA 188
III. THE COUNTRY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF PEKING—NUMEROUS SIGNS OF THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE 198
IV. THE LITERARY AND MANDARIN CLASS—PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF THE DECADENCE OF THE EMPIRE 204
V. THE CHINESE PEOPLE AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS 212
VI. FOREIGNERS IN CHINA—THE ATTITUDE OF THE CHINESE TOWARDS WESTERN CIVILIZATION 228
VII. THE POSITION AND WORK OF FOREIGNERS IN CHINA 234
VIII. CHINA AND THE POWERS 242
IX. RUSSIA, FRANCE, AND ENGLAND IN THE FAR EAST IN 1895–97 253
X. CHINA AND THE POWERS 1897–99—‘SPHERES OF INFLUENCE,’ AND THE ‘OPEN DOOR’

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