After a tour of China, Korea and Japan that began at the Shanghai Centenary Missionary Conference, Lord William Cecil and his wife set out what they saw of an ancient empire in transition. They weigh the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese civilisation, foreign relations, railways and rivers, and the case for a Western university and Christian missions.
A revealing document of Western attitudes toward late-Qing China, with the assumptions of its missionary moment. Download the free EPUB.