China An Interpretation

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION We had the privilege of spending the five days with Bishop Bashford just prior to his last great pain which was followed by death. During those hours together he sketched briefly the minor changes he desired in this new edition. They were to include a chapter on the origin of the Chinese people which he had rewritten many times while in China, and a supplementary statement of events in China from the time of the first edition until now. We have fulfilled the first request by adding Chapter XX. This is a particularly valuable contribution as it represents fifteen years of careful study of the subject with a mind open to all relative facts. It may be that some readers will disagree with the author in his final analysis, but we would suggest that they give to it the thought and study