World-Crisis in China, 1900: A Short Account of the Outbreak of the War With the Boxers, and Ensuing Foreign Complications (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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What is the news from China? Is the question that everybody is asking. The newspapers are full Of dispatches telling the story of a startling succession of events that seem destined to shake the world. Even the presidential campaign, now in progress, occupies a subordinate place in the estimation Of the American public, whose interest is fixed on the extraordinary possibilities of the Situation in the Flowery Kingdom.
But what does it all mean? Asks the reader again. Here he cannot so readily find an answer. The news papers faithfully tell the story of the developments in the situation as it rapidly unfolds itself, but the reader seeks something more than that. He wants to know how the present crisis was produced what tremendous forces are at work in this task of gripping by the throat a nation Of What are the possibilities and probabilities Of the immediate future; how far and for what reason the United States has been drawn into the vortex. In brief, he wants up-to-date information which will bring him in touch with the situation as it now exists. He seeks a special key to the events of the remote and immediate past which will give him a foundation for comprehending clearly and in their full significance the successive stages in the crisis as they are presented to him day by day.
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What is the news from China? Is the question that everybody is asking. The newspapers are full Of dispatches telling the story of a startling succession of events that seem destined to shake the world. Even the presidential campaign, now in progress, occupies a subordinate place in the estimation Of the American public, whose interest is fixed on the extraordinary possibilities of the Situation in the Flowery Kingdom.
But what does it all mean? Asks the reader again. Here he cannot so readily find an answer. The news papers faithfully tell the story of the developments in the situation as it rapidly unfolds itself, but the reader seeks something more than that. He wants to know how the present crisis was produced what tremendous forces are at work in this task of gripping by the throat a nation Of What are the possibilities and probabilities Of the immediate future; how far and for what reason the United States has been drawn into the vortex. In brief, he wants up-to-date information which will bring him in touch with the situation as it now exists. He seeks a special key to the events of the remote and immediate past which will give him a foundation for comprehending clearly and in their full significance the successive stages in the crisis as they are presented to him day by day.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Publication date2020
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- ISBN 13 9781332428649
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- Number of pages218
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