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Excerpt from A Wandering Student, in the Far East, Vol. 1 of 2 On the other hand, volume ii. Is composed mainly of a series of essays upon subjects of more especial interest to those who are them selves personally interested, either directly or indirectly, in the development of Far Eastern affairs - the student, the politician, the fin ancier, the merchant, and the manufacturer. Of the thirteen chapters composing this volume, nine are devoted to a critical ex amination of Japan's place in the Far East. In such an examination narrative of travel finds but little place, the bulk of the space at my disposal being required for more serious discussion. The remaining four chapters chapters xix.-xxii. - are concerned with such matters as the present attitude of China towards Europe, and with the existing state of the commerce and communications (railways) of the Empire, some indication also being given as to their probable future development. Here again a description of travel finds no place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 58 CHAPTER XXI. Railway Schemes (continued): BRITISH PROJECTS. I Have sometimes heard it said that the line of country to be followed by Great Britain with a view to opening up a direct trade-route with Western China, is across a comparatively narrow strip of country between Sadiya, in Assam, and Bathang, on the confines of China and Tibet; and the Indian Government were on the point of sending a small expedition to examine this unknown strip of country in 1905, when the rising in the neighbourhood of Bathang referred to in chapter viii. took place and rendered the proposed expedition inadvisable. The suggestion is by no means a novel one. Mr T. T. Cooper, who was at Bathang in 1868 in CHINESE AND TIBETAN HOSTILITY. 59 search of through means of communication between India and China, heard from a Chinese tea- trader of the existence of a trade-route from Bathang to Rooemah, a town in the Tibetan province of Zy-yul, situated near the borders of Assam, twenty days' journey distant.1 Tibetan exclusiveness, however, has to this day prevailed against the exploration of the small and peculiar region immediately east of Assam that separates India from China.2 Cooper in 1868, Davies in 1900, Hosie in 1904, all met with a determination on the part of Tibetans and Chinese alike to prevent their crossing the frontier, and the reason given by Cooper for this exclusiveness is probably in the main correct. Nothing, he says, is more contrary to the policy of the Chinese Government and the Lamas than the introduction of Assam tea. The Chinese, on their part, dread the loss of their valuable wholesale monopoly, to retain which they give the Lamas the monopoly ofthe retail supply; who by this means hold in absolute subjection the people, to whom tea is a prime necess...