A frank analysis and discussion of the factors that go to make what is known as the “Far Eastern problem.” The study resolves itself into three parts: Japan and the new position. China and the Chinese, and The powers and their influence. The author warns his reader against over confidence in the ten years’ truce now in operation, yet he does believe that it will be one of the greatest constructive victories of diplomacy, if, during nine years of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, a permanent Far Eastern peace is evolved. There are nearly two hundred pages of appendices including documents peculiarly pertinent to the subject-matter of the political chapters.
“With his presentment of facts it would be difficult to quarrel, but with the conclusions ... it is not easy to agree.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 673. Jl. 13, ’07. 950w. |
“The book is an admirable presentation of the impressions of one of the closest observers of Oriental politics.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 189. Jl. ’07. 870w. |
“His book is not convincing. It is too confident in statement, too dramatic in expression, and knows more of the future of half of Asia than it is possible for any one even to guess at—above all, any European. Mr. Weale is always lucid, and even when we are least convinced by his conclusions, we feel that they have been honestly formed upon a fairly wide basis of knowledge, experience, and thought.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 433. Ap. 13. 1520w. |
“A genuine pupil of such men as Sir Harry Parkes and other devotees of a diplomatic policy increasingly absolute, he takes himself entirely too seriously.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 758. S. 26, ’07. 350w. |