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On February 12, 1912, China, the oldest of Monarchies, became a Republic.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Chinese Empire
1. China: Official Publications
Blue Books respecting the affairs of China. London. Annual Consular Reports.
Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Reports. Shanghai.
Hertslet’s China Treaties. Treaties, &c., between Great Britain and China, and between China and Foreign Powers; and Orders in Council, Rules, Regulations, Acts of Parliament, Decrees, &c., affecting British Interests in China, in force on January 1, 1908. 3rd ed. 2 vols. London, 1908.
Second Preliminary Report on the Statistics of Government Railways in China for the sis months ending December 31, 1915, and for the calendar year 1915. Peking, 1918.
Non-Official Publicatons
The China Tear Book, (Woodhead & Bell). London. Annual.
The China Mission Year Book. (The China Continuation Committee). Shanghai. Annual.
The Chinese Social and Political Science Review. Peking. Quarterly.
The New Atlas and Commercial Gazetteer. Dingle. Shanghai.
The Encyclopædia Sinica. (Samuel Couling). London, 1918.
An official guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-continental connections between Europe and Asia. Vol. IV. China. Prepared by the Imperial Japanese Government Railways. Tokyo, 1915.
Beaulieu (P. Leroy), La Rénovation de l’Asie (Sibérie, Chine, Japon). Paris, 1900.—The Awakening of the East (Eng. Trans.). London, 1900.
Bland (J O.P.), and Backhouse (E.), China under the Empress Dowager. London. 1911.—Recent Events and Present Policies in China. (By Bland). London, 1912.—Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking. London, 1914.
Borel (H.), The New China London, 1912.
Boulger(D. C), History of China. 2nd edit. 2 vols. London, 1898.—A Short History of China. New ed. London, 1900.
Broomhall (Marshall), The Chinese Empire. 1907.—Islam in China. 1910.—Atlas of China. London, 1917.
Bushell (S. W.), Chinese Art. 2 vols. 1905–0.
Cantlie (J.), and Jones (C. S.), Sun Vat Sen and the Awakening of China. London, 1912.
Charignon (A. J. H.), Les Chemins de Fer Chinois. Paris, 1910.
Chu (Chin), The Tariff Problem in China. New York, 1916.
Clarke (R. S.). and Sowerby (A. C.), Through Shên-Kan. An Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908–9. London. 1912.
Clennel (W. J.), The Historical Development of Religion in China. London, 1917.
Coleman, (F.), The Far East Unveiled. An Inner History of Events in Japan and China in the year 1916. London, 1918.
Collins (W. F.), Mineral Enterprise in China. London, 1918.
Cordier (H.), Histoire des Relations da la Chine, avec les Puissances Occidentales (1860–1900). 2 vols. Paris, 1901–02.
Dickinson (G. Lowes), Appearances. London, 1914.—An Essay on the Civilization of India, China, and Japan. London, 1914.
Dingle (E. J.), Across China on foot. Bristol and London, 1911.—China’s Revolution. 1911–12. London, 1912.
Douglas (R. K.), Confucianism and Taoism. London, 1893.—Society in China. London, 1894.—Li Hung Chang. London, 1895.—China. In ‘Story of the Nations’ Series 2nd ed. London, 1900.—Europe and the Far Fast. New edition. Cambridge, 1912.
Farjenel (F.), A travers la révolution Chinoise. Paris, 1914. (English Translation). Through the Chinese Revolution. London. 1915.
Fenellosa (R. F.), Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art. 2 vols. 1912.
Gascoyne-Cecil (Rev. Lord William), Changing China. (Cheap Edition). London, 1911.
Gaunt (Mary), Little Journeying in China. London, 1914.
Geil (W. E.). Great Wall of China. London, 1909.—Eighteen Capitals of China. London. 1911.
Gêrard (A.), Ma Mission en Chine. Paris, 1918.
Giles (H. A.), Civilisation of China.—A History of Chinese Literature.—China and the Manchus. Cambridge, 1912.
Gowan (H. H.), An Outline History of China. London, 1915.
Griffis (W. E), China’s Story, in Myth. Legend, Art, and Annals. London, 1911.
Groot (J. J. M. de), The Religious Systems of China. 6 vols. 1910.
Guide Madrolle. Chine du Sud, Java, Japan. Paris, 1916.
Guide to Eastern Asia. Issued by the Imperial Japanese Government Railways. Vol. 1. Manchuria. Vol. II. China. London, 1916.
Hackmann (H.), Welt des Ostens. Berlin, 1912.
Hardy (E. J.), John Chinaman at Home. London, 1905
Hart (Sir R.), These from the Land of Sinim. London, 1901.
Headland (I. T.), Home Life in China. London, 1914.
Birth (F.), Ancient History of China. New York, 1908.
Hosie (A.), Three Years in Western China. New ed. London, 1897.—On the Trail of the Opium Poppy. London, 1914.
Hsu (M.C.), Railway Problems in China London, 1915.
Ireland (A.), China and the Powers. Boston, Mass., 1900.
Jernigan (T. R.), China in Law and Commerce. New York, 1905.
Johnston (R. F.), From Peking to Mandalay London, 1907.—Lion and Dragon in North China. London, 1910.—Buddhist China. London, 1913.
Keane (Prof. A. H.), Asia. Vol I. New ed. London, 1906.
Kendall (Elizabeth), A Wayfarer in China. London, 1913.
Kent (P. H.), The Passing of the Manchus. London, 1912.—Railway Enterprise in China. London, 1907.
Koo (V. K. W.), The Status of Aliens in China. New York and London, 1914.
Lawton (L.), Empress of the Far East. London, 1912.
Legge (J.), Chinese Classics, with Translations, Prolegomena, …c. New ed. 7 vols. Oxford, 1893.
Leong (Y. K.), and Tao (L. K.), Village and Town Life in China. London, 1915.
Liddell (T H.). China, its Marvel and Mystery. London, 1909.
Loo (R. van), L’Agriculture en Chine. Brussels, 1910.—La Belgique industrielle et la Chiné commercial. Brussels, 1911.—La Chiné nouvelle. Brussels, 1909.
Luigi (G.). La Cina contemporanea. Milan, 1912.
Maran (A.T.), The Problem of Asia. London, 1900.
Matignon (J. J.), Superstition, Crime, Misère en Chine. Paris 1905.
Maybon (A.), La République Chinois. Paris, 1914.
Morse (H. B.), The Trade and Administration of the Chinese Empire. New edition. London, 1913.—Gilds of China. London, 1909.—The International Relations of the Chinese Empire, 3 vols. London, 1911–18.
Moule (A. E.). New Chinaand Old. London, 1902—The Chinese People. London, 1913.
d’Ollone (Vicomte), In Forbidden China. (English Edition). London, 1912.
Oxenham (E. L.), Historical Atlas of the Chinese Empire. 2nd ed. London, 1898.
Parker (E. H.), China, her History, Diplomacy, and Commerce. London, 1917.—John Chinaman and a few Others. London, 1901.—China Past and Present. London, 1903.—China and Religion. London, 1905.—A Thousand Years of the Tartars. London, 1895.
Pigott (Sir Francis), ‘Huafeng Lao Jen’ Letters on the Chinese Constitution. London, 1913.
Powell (S. J.), Transportation in China. Shanghai, 1916.
Putnam Weale (B. L.), The Fight for the Republic in China. London, 1918.
Reclus (Elisée), Nouvelle géographie universelle. Tome VII. Paris, 18S2.—L’Empire du Milieu. Paris, 1901.
Richard (P. L.). Geographie de l’Empire de Chine. T’ou-sé-wé, China, 1905.
Richthofen (Ferd. von), China: Ergebnisse eigener Reisen und darauf gegründeter Studien. Vols. I.–V., and Atlases. Berlin, 1382–1912.
Rockhill (W. W.), Inquiry into the Population of China. (From Smithsonian Musc. Coll., vol. 47, pt. 3). Washington, 1904.— The 1910 Census of the Population of China. Leyden, 1912.
Ross (E. A.), The Changing Chinese. London, 1911.
Rottach (E), La Chiné en Révolution. Paris, 1913.
Salzmami (E.), Das revolutionäre China. Berlin, 1916.
Shaw (N.), Chinese Forest Trees and Timber Supply. London, 1915.
Tchou (L.N.), Le Régime des Capitulations et la Kéforme Constitutionnelle en Cinne. Cambridge, 1915.
Tyau (M. T. Z.). The Legal Obligations arising out of Treaty Relations between China and other States. Shanghai, 1917.—China’s New Constitution and International Problems. Shanghai, 1918
Vissering (G.), On Chinese Currency. Amsterdam, 1914.
Vladimir, The China-Japanese War. London, 1895.
Wagel (S. R.), Finance in China. Shanghai, 1915.—Chinese Currency and Banking Shanghai, 1915
Ward (F. Kingdon), The Land of the Blue Poppy. London, 1913.
Wilson (E. H.), A. Naturalist in Western China. London, 1913.
Yen (H. L.), A Survey of Constitutional Development in China. New York and London, 1911.
2. Chinese Dependencies: Manchuria
Christie (D.), Thirty Years in Moukden. London, 1914.
Hosie (A.), Manchuria; its People, Resources, and Recent History. London, 1901.
Kemp (E. G.), The Face of Manchuria, Korea, and Russian Turkestan. London, 1912.
Little (A.), The Far East. Oxford, 1905.
Qrloff (N. A.), Die Eroberung der Mandschurei durch die Transbaikal-Kosaken im Jahre 1900. [Trans. from Russ.] Strassburg, 1904.—Die Mandschurei. [Trans. from Russ.] Berlin, 1904.
Pozdnief (D.), Manchuria. St. Petersburg, 1897.
Ross (Rev. J.), The Manchus; or the Reigning Dynasty of China, their Rise and Progress. London, 1880.
Weale (B. L. P.), Manchu and Muscovite. London, 1904.—The Re-shaping of the Far East. London, 1905.—The Truce in the East and its Aftermath. London, 1907.—The Coming Struggle in Eastern Asia. London, 1908.—Conflict of Colour. London, 1910.
Tibet
Papers on Tibet. Cd. 1920. London, 1904.—Further Papers on Tibet. Cd. 20—London, 1904.—Further Papers on Tibet. No. III., Cd. 2370. London, 1905.
Amundsen (E.), In the Land of the Lamas. London, 1910.
Bower (H.), Diary of a Journey across Tibet. London, 1894.
Candler (E.), On the Road to Lhasa.—The Unveiling of Lhasa. London, 1905.
Coales (Oliver), Eastern Tibet, Geographical Journal for April, 1919.
Crosby (O. T.), Tibet and Turkestan. London, 1906.
Das (Sarat Chandra), Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet. Loudon, 1902.
Deasy (H. H. P.), In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan. London, 1901.
Duncan (Jane E.), A Summer Ride through Western Tibet. London, 1906.
Ekvall (D. P.), Outposts, or Tibetan Border Sketches. New York, 1907.
Farrer (Reginald). On the Eaves of the World. 2 vols. London, 1917.
Fergusson (W. N.), Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. London, 1911.
Filchner (W.), Das Kloster Kuinburn in Tibet. Berlin, 1906.
Filchner (W.), Das Rätzel des Matschu. Meine Tibet Expedition. Berlin, 1907.
Genshow (A.), Unter Chinesen und Tibetanern. Rostock, 1905.
Gerard (F.), Tibet: The Country and its Inhabitants. [Trans. from the French. London, 1904.
Hedin (Sven), Through Asia. 2 vols. London. 1898.—Central Asia and Tibet. 2 vols. London, 1903.—Adventures in Tibet. London, 1904.—Trans-Himalaya. 3 vols. London, 1913.
Holdich (Sir T.), Tibet the Mysterious. In ‘Story of Exploration’ Series. London, 1906.
Hua (L’Abbé E. R.), Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, 1884–86. Translated from the French. 2 vols. London, 1898.
Landon (P.), Lhasa: The Tibet Expedition, 1903–04. 2nd ed. London, 1906.
Lansdell (H.). Chinese Central Asia: a Ride to Little Tibet. 2 vols. London, 1893.
Launay (A.), Histoire de la Mission du Thibet. 2 vols. Paris.
Legendre (A. F.), Massif Sino-Thihetain. Paris, 1916.
Pyevtsof (M. V.), Results of the Tibet Expedition of 1889–90. [In Russian.] St. Petersburg, 1896.
Bawling (C. G.), The Great Plateau. London, 1905.
Mijnhart (S. C.), With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple. London, 1901.
Rockhill (W. W.), The Land of the Lamas. London, 1891.
Sandberg (G.), The Exploration of Tibet. London, 1904.—Tibet and the Tibetans, London, 1906.
Sherring (C. A.), Western Tibet and the British Borderland. London, 1906.
Tafel (A.), Meine Tibetreise. Eine Studienfahrt durch das nordwestliche China und durch die innere Mongolei in das östliche Tibet. 2 vols. Berlin, 1914.
Waddell (L. A.), The Buddism of Tibet. London, 1895.—Llassa and its Mysteries, 3rd cd. London, 1906.
Wellby (M. S.), Through Unknown Tibet. London, 1893.
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Chinese Turkestan
Church (P. W.), Chinese Turkestan with Caravan and Rifle. London, 1901.
Cobbold (R. P.), Inmost Asia. London, 1900.
Huntington (Ellsworth), The Pulse of Asia. London, 1908.
Merzbacher (G.), An Expedition into the Central Tian Shan Mountains. London, 1905.
Stein (M. A.), The Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan. London, 1903.—Ancient Khotan, 2 vols. Oxford, 1907. Ruins of Desert Cathay. London, 1912.
Taylor (Miss A.), Travel and Adventure in Tibet. London, 1902.
Mongolia
Bulstrode (Beatrice), A Tour in Mongolia. London, 1916.
Campbell (C. W.), Journeys in Mongolia. In Geogr. Journal for November, 1903.—Report on a Journey in Mongolia. China. No. 1. 1904. See also China. No. 3. 1904.
Carruthers (Douglas), Unknown Mongolia. London, 1913.
Gilmour (J.), Among the Mongols. London, 1888.—More about the Mongols. London, 1893.
Hedley (J.), Tramps in Dark Mongolia. London, 1910.
Kozloff (K.), Works of the Expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in Mongolia and Kham (Tibet) during 1889–1901. [Russian.] Vol. I. St. Petersburg, 1905–06. Eng. Trans. in Geographical Journal for April, May, and June, 1908. London.
Ohrntschew (V. A.), Report of Journevs, 1892–94, in Central Mongolia, …c. (in Russian). St. Petersburg, 1901.
Perry-Ayscough (H. G. C.) and Otter-Barry (Captain R. B.), With the Russians in Mongolia. London, 1914.
Podznéeff (A.), Mongolia and the Mongols; Results of a Journey in 1892–93. 7 vols. St. Petersburg, 1896.
Riborovshy (V. T.), Works of the Expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in Central Asia under V. T. Riborovsky. [In Russian.] St. Petersburg, 1900.
Parliamentary Paper [Cd. 6604] containing the Russo-Mongolian Agreement, Nov. 3, 1912. London, 1913.
Russian Orange Book. Published April 6, 1914.
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Scott Keltie, J., Epstein, M. (1919). China. In: Scott Keltie, J., Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270480_24
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