China under the Empress Dowager

by J. O. P. Bland; Sir E. Backhouse

BY
J. O. P. BLAND and E. BACKHOUSE

ILLUSTRATED

PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
MCMX

Printed in England

NOTE

The thanks of the Authors are hereby gratefully expressed to Miss Katharine A. Carl, for permission to reproduce the photograph of her portrait of the Empress Dowager; to Mr. K. Ogawa, art publisher of Tokyo, for the use of his unique pictures of the Palace at Peking; to Mr. Geo. Bronson Rea, of the Far Eastern Review, for permission to reproduce illustrations originally published in that journal; to Messrs. Betines, of Peking, for the right to publish their views of the capital; and to the Editor of The Times, for his courtesy in permitting the inclusion in this volume of certain articles written for that paper.

London, September 10th, 1910.