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Excerpt from The East of Asia Magazine, Vol. 5: An Illustrated Quarterly Hese are stirring days. The war is over. Japan is preparing to consolidate and safeguard the results of her great victories; and China, who has been watching with ever wider opening eyes her neighbour's prowess and conquests. Is now wide awake; there is a sound of human going in the air, and the whole land is stirred and swept by a spirit of change and progress. \vhat can be the interest, some will ask, or the profit of retailin'g a bit of Chinese history, half a century old, dealing with events which history can never repeat again in the same order or the same connection My apology is threefold. First, that chapter of history has not, I believe. Anywhere been recorded with any fulness of detail as history, save in a brochure of my own, written twenty-two years ago, and which appeared in the columns of the Celestial Empire. Secondly, there remain very few eye-witnesses who can relate from personal observation the events of the T'ai - p'ing inroad. Thirdly, when it is remembered (as I shall presently relate) that the T'ai-p'ing programme of reform for China anticipated the larger number of the particulars of reform now agitating China, my narrative cannot be deemed uninteresting nor wholly out-of-date. I propose, therefore, to place my story, rewritten in more permanent form, in the pages of the east OF asia. 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.