Abstract
OF late years the Far East is only far in actual distance; it is very near to our thoughts, while the ignorance regarding these lands is being very rapidly dispelled. At the present moment it is Japan that is attracting our attention; five years ago it was China, and probably in a few more years, now that the Russo-Japanese contest is concluded, China will again be the centre of interest. In his most interesting book, “The Far East,” Mr. Archibald Little devotes more space to China than to Japan, having been himself for very many years a resident of the former country, and possessing a knowledge of the Chinese surpassed by no one. China stands now at the parting of the ways; for many years resolute in keeping out foreign inventions so distasteful to the old-fashioned mandarin, circumstances have proved too strong, and railways, the precursors of western life, are now being built or projected throughout the land. No one can foresee what changes twenty years will bring about in this vast country, a vastness which Mr. Little brings home to us by his diagrams and comparative tables.
The Far East.
By Archibald Little. Pp. viii + 334. (London: Frowde, 1905.) Price 7s. 6d.
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The Far East . Nature 72, 626–627 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072626a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/072626a0
