Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER I GEOGRAPHICAL AND INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II “THE MODEL SETTLEMENT”
- CHAPTER III HANGCHOW
- CHAPTER IV THE HANGCHOW MEDICAL MISSION HOSPITALS
- CHAPTER V SHANGHAI TO HANKOW (HANKAU)
- CHAPTER VI THE FOREIGNERS—HANKOW AND BRITISH TRADE
- CHAPTER VII CHINESE HANKOW (HANKAU)
- CHAPTER VIII HANKOW TO ICHANG
- CHAPTER IX ICHANG
- CHAPTER X THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XI RAPIDS OF THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XII RAPIDS AND TRACKERS
- CHAPTER XIII LIFE ON THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XIV THE YANGTZE AND KUEI FU
- CHAPTER XV NEW YEAR'S DAY AT KUEI-CHOW FU
- CHAPTER XVI KUEI FU TO WAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XVII CHINESE CHARITIES
- CHAPTER XVIII FROM WAN HSIEN TO SAN TSAN-PU
- CHAPTER XIX SZE CHUAN TRAVELLING
- CHAPTER XX SAN-TSAN-PU TO LIANG-SHAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXI LIANG-SHAN HSIEN TO HSIA-SHAN-PO
- CHAPTER XXII HSIA-SHAN-PO TO SIAO-KIAO
- CHAPTER XXIII SIAO-KIAO TO HSIEH-TIEN-TZE
- CHAPTER XXIV HSIEH-TIEN-TZE TO PAONING FU
- CHAPTER XXV PAONING FU AND SIN-TIEN-TZE
- CHAPTER XXVI SIN-TIEN-TZE TO TZE-TUNG HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXVII TZE-TUNG HSIEN TO KUAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXVIII KUAN HSIEN AND CHENGTU
- CHAPTER XXIX KUAN HSIEN TO SIN-WEN-PING
- CHAPTER XXX SIN-WEN-PING TO LI-FAN TING
- CHAPTER XXXI LI-FAN TING TO TSA-KU-LAO
- CHAPTER XXXII THE “BEYOND”
- CHAPTER XXXIII THE MAN-TZE, I-REN, OR SHAN-SHANG-REN
- CHAPTER XXXIV FROM SOMO TO CHENGTU FU
- CHAPTER XXXV DOWNWARD BOUND
- CHAPTER XXXVI LUCHOW TO CHUNG-KING FU
- CHAPTER XXXVII THE JOURNEY'S END
- CHAPTER XXXVIII THE OPIUM POPPY AND ITS USE
- CHAPTER XXXIX NOTES ON PROTESTANT MISSIONS IN CHINA
- CONCLUDING REMARKS
- ITINERARY
- APPENDICES
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER I - GEOGRAPHICAL AND INTRODUCTORY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER I GEOGRAPHICAL AND INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II “THE MODEL SETTLEMENT”
- CHAPTER III HANGCHOW
- CHAPTER IV THE HANGCHOW MEDICAL MISSION HOSPITALS
- CHAPTER V SHANGHAI TO HANKOW (HANKAU)
- CHAPTER VI THE FOREIGNERS—HANKOW AND BRITISH TRADE
- CHAPTER VII CHINESE HANKOW (HANKAU)
- CHAPTER VIII HANKOW TO ICHANG
- CHAPTER IX ICHANG
- CHAPTER X THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XI RAPIDS OF THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XII RAPIDS AND TRACKERS
- CHAPTER XIII LIFE ON THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XIV THE YANGTZE AND KUEI FU
- CHAPTER XV NEW YEAR'S DAY AT KUEI-CHOW FU
- CHAPTER XVI KUEI FU TO WAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XVII CHINESE CHARITIES
- CHAPTER XVIII FROM WAN HSIEN TO SAN TSAN-PU
- CHAPTER XIX SZE CHUAN TRAVELLING
- CHAPTER XX SAN-TSAN-PU TO LIANG-SHAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXI LIANG-SHAN HSIEN TO HSIA-SHAN-PO
- CHAPTER XXII HSIA-SHAN-PO TO SIAO-KIAO
- CHAPTER XXIII SIAO-KIAO TO HSIEH-TIEN-TZE
- CHAPTER XXIV HSIEH-TIEN-TZE TO PAONING FU
- CHAPTER XXV PAONING FU AND SIN-TIEN-TZE
- CHAPTER XXVI SIN-TIEN-TZE TO TZE-TUNG HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXVII TZE-TUNG HSIEN TO KUAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXVIII KUAN HSIEN AND CHENGTU
- CHAPTER XXIX KUAN HSIEN TO SIN-WEN-PING
- CHAPTER XXX SIN-WEN-PING TO LI-FAN TING
- CHAPTER XXXI LI-FAN TING TO TSA-KU-LAO
- CHAPTER XXXII THE “BEYOND”
- CHAPTER XXXIII THE MAN-TZE, I-REN, OR SHAN-SHANG-REN
- CHAPTER XXXIV FROM SOMO TO CHENGTU FU
- CHAPTER XXXV DOWNWARD BOUND
- CHAPTER XXXVI LUCHOW TO CHUNG-KING FU
- CHAPTER XXXVII THE JOURNEY'S END
- CHAPTER XXXVIII THE OPIUM POPPY AND ITS USE
- CHAPTER XXXIX NOTES ON PROTESTANT MISSIONS IN CHINA
- CONCLUDING REMARKS
- ITINERARY
- APPENDICES
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
The events which have rendered the Yangtze Valley literally a “sphere of interest” throughout the British Empire lie outside the purview of these volumes. Few people, unless they have been compelled to the task by circumstances or interests, are fully acquainted with the magnitude and resources of the great basin which in the spring of 1898 was claimed as the British “sphere of influence,” and I honestly confess that it was only at the end of eight months (out of journeys of fifteen months in China) spent on the Yangtze, its tributaries, and the regions watered by them that I even began to learn their magnificent capabilities, and the energy, resourcefulness, capacities, and “backbone” of their enormous population.
Geographically the Yangtze Valley, or drainage area, may be taken as extending from the 90th to the 122nd meridian of east longitude, and as including all or most of the important provinces of Sze Chuan, Hupeh, Hunan, Kiangsi, Nganhui, Kiangsu, and Honan, with considerable portions of Che Kiang, Kueichow, and Yunnan, and even includes the south-eastern drainage areas of Kansuh, Shensi, and Shantung. Geographically there can be no possible mistake about the limits of this basin. Its area is estimated at about 650,000 square miles, and its population, one of the most peaceable and industrious on earth, at from 170,000,000 to 180,000,000.
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- The Yangtze Valley and BeyondAn Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory, pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010