Chinese Miscellanies

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Excerpt from Chinese Miscellanies: A Collection of Essays and Notes The increased facility of access to China and Japan - the combined result of successful war and diplomacy - has augmented the interest which distance and difficulties had tended to keep down. Both countries may now he reached in little more than six weeks, English law is administered under a Royal Commission on the coast of China, and money coined with the Queen's image and superscription. The few short Articles contained in this Volume may, from their variety, serve for the amusement or information of various readers. Some are printed for the first time, and the rest appear with the kind permission of the proprietors of the Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews, and others. The fears formerly entertained of European nations in both China and Japan, from the idea that their principal object was territorial possession, must have been greatly allayed by the moderation which has attended our military successes. 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.