L. Richard's Comprehensive Geography of the Chinese Empire and Dependencies Translated Into English: Revised and Enlarged (Classic Reprint)

Origin of this Work. Richard sG eogmphie deVE mpire de. Chine published in 1905, by the Tusewei Press, Shanghai, was so appreciated in theE ast and at home, that anE nglish Edition of the work Mas immediately requested. The Chinese Legation in London, Officials, Railway-prospectors, Merchants, Travellers, Missionaries, and all who take a special interest inC hina and Things Chinese, have at various times urged the necessity of the work, and augured that it would be of valuable service to the Public. The Translation, undertaken and carried out amidst the drudgery of class-work with Chinese pupils, remote fromE nglish surroundings, and without the assistance of the valuable home libraries, was unavoidably slow. As the work proceeded, it was remarked that the various reforms adopted by China, the new status of theM aur churian Provinces, and the progress of events in the Far East would require some recasting of the original. The ne-w part has not been thrown into the shape of additional notes, but has been welded into the old paragraphs, with as little disturbance as possible of the order of the original. The present English Edition is thus enlarged and revised, bringing all information, administrative, statistical and economic, thoroughly up to-date. Plan of theW ork. This Work given a Physical and Political description of China and Dependencies. The Physical part groups all facts around the 3natural Regions orG reat Basins of China: 1. theN orthern, around theY ellow River; 2. the Central, around theY angtze-kiang; and 3. theS outhern, around theS i-kiang or West River. A general outline of each region precedes the description of the Provinces. Each Province is the object of a particular study, in which its area, population and boundaries, its aspect and characteristics, its mountains and rivers, its geology, its fauna and flora, its climate, its agricultured
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