My great obligations to the scholars, native and foreign, who have so generously aided In again sending forth a work that has been so heartily welcomed, I reiterate gladly Of Corea, are like the other protecting nations, British, American, French, German, The final failure of intriguing Yang-banism, in May, 1906. Is also shown to be pronounced-less by the writer than by the events themselves-in Of education their work, and class interests instead of national welfare their aim, The penalty laid upon the leaders of the peninsular kingdom for making intrigue instead The reasons why Corea, as to her foreign relations, has lost her sovereignty. Japan and of her signal diplomatic victory at Portsmouth, but more. Results both of Japan’s military and naval successes in Manchuria and on the sea of The present or eighth edition shows in both text and map, not only the swift, logical The politics of Asia, and with which the would-be conquerors of Asiatic peoples must This period also, the United States of America has become one of the great Powers interested in Time went to war with a Power vastly greater in natural resources than herself. With Russia, has vitally affected Corea, on behalf of whose independence Japan a second Position of a modern state, able first to humiliate China and then to grapple successfully The rise of Japan, within half a century of immediate contact with the West, to the Politics has shifted from the Atlantic and the Mediterranean to the waters surroundingĬorea, the strange anomaly of dual sovereignty over the peninsular state has beenĮliminated, and the military reputation of China ruined, and that of Russia compromised. Within the brief period of time treated in these new chapters, the centre of the world’s Japan and Russia in Conflict and Corea a Japanese Protectorate, bringing the history In this eighth edition, I have added to the original text, ending withĬhapter XLVIII (September, 1882), five fresh chapters: on The Economic Condition ofĬorea International Politics: Chinese and Japanese The War of 1894: Corea an Empire Itself as the first book of general information to be read by missionaries and other Use of by writers and students, in Europe and America, and has served even in Corea Who ventures to penetrate its inhospitable borders.”įor twenty-four years, this book, besides enjoying popular favor, has been made good “Corea stands in much the same relation to the traveller that the region of the poleĭoes to the explorer, and menaces with the same penalty the too inquisitive tourist Work to the public of English-speaking nations, they wrote: When in October, 1882, the publishers of “Corea the Hermit Nation” presented this Heartily all who, from 1876, when the work was planned, until the present time, haveĪssisted in making this book valuable to humanity. Time has had its revenges, while the contents are still of worth, the author thanks In sending forth what may be the final edition of a work, with the title of which Public ethics, the Japanese are ranging themselves abreast with the leading nations In this respect, as in so many other points of Tokio government bear witness to the sensitiveness of the national conscience in regard The severe criticisms, in Japan itself, of the policy of the
Hermit kingdom new lands full#
Of Japan assume a responsibility that may test to the full their abilities and those Not in haste, but only after long compulsion, did the statesmen I doubt not that the hopes of twelve millions of people will be increasingly fulfilled The Japanese in their treaty of 1876, has been, through the logic of events, destroyed, Of the extinction of Corean sovereignty, aiming in this to be a disinterested interpreterĪlthough the sovereignty of Corea, first recognized and made known to the world by
Outlining in brief the striking events from 1907 to 1911, I have analyzed the causes Made some corrections and added a final chapter, “Chō-sen: A Province of Japan.” Besides Hand-book of information-having, by their own unsought confession, inspired not aįew men and women to become devoted friends and teachers of the Corean people-I have In this ninth edition of a work which for nearly thirty years has been a useful The year 1910 saw the Land of the Plum Blossom and the Islands of the Cherry Blooms
0 kommentar(er)
