The Changing Chinese : the Conflict of Oriental And Western Cultures in China
The book The Changing Chinese : the Conflict of Oriental And Western Cultures in China was written by author Edward Alsworth Ross Here you can read free online of The Changing Chinese : the Conflict of Oriental And Western Cultures in China book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Changing Chinese : the Conflict of Oriental And Western Cultures in China a good or bad book?
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Please ask them for me to send to you a report of any opium fields in their neighborhood ; and then you give their reports to me, and I will see that the plants are torn up." Within a few hours a circular letter was on its way to a hun- dred men who could not be bought nor brow- 158 THE CHANGING CHINESE beaten, and the astonislied missionaries found themselves for once in their lives cogs in the Im- perial Administration of China. The completer a blockade, the greater is the temptation to block...ade-running. In like manner; as poppy prohibition approaches success and the price of opium jumps to several times the old figure, the schemes to smuggle through a crop become more and more brilliant. Perhaps the most elaborate ruse on record was worked last year in Szechuan, the great interior province that only two years ago was so given over to poppy-growing that food stuffs had reached an almost prohibitive price. The energetic Viceroy stamped out the poppy in every county but one — Fouchou hsien, about four hundred miles from the Viceroy's capital.
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