New Forces in Old China:
An Inevitable Awakening

by Arthur Judson Brown

  1. preface
    preface to the second edition

    PART I
    OLD CHINA AND ITS PEOPLE

  2. The Ancient Empire
  3. Do We Rightly View the Chinese
  4. Attitude Towards Foreigners -- Character and Achievements
  5. A Typical Province
  6. A Shendza In Shantung
  7. At the Grave of Confucius
  8. Some Experiences of A Traveller -- Feasts, Inns and Soldiers

    PART II
    THE COMMERCIAL FORCE AND THE ECONOMIC REVOLUTION

  9. World Conditions That Are Affecting China101
  10. The Economic Revolution In Asia
  11. Foreign Trade and Foreign Vices
  12. The Building of Railways

    PART III
    THE POLITICAL FORCE AND THE NATIONAL PROTEST

  13. The Aggressions of European Powers
  14. The United States and China
  15. Diplomatic Relations-Treaties
  16. Renewed Aggressions
  17. Growing Irritation of the Chinese -- the Reform Party
  18. The Boxer Uprising

    PART IV
    THE MISSIONARY FORCE AND THE CHINESE CHURCH

  19. Beginnings of the Missionary Enterprise -- the Tai-Ping Rebellion and the Later Development
  20. Missionaries and Native Lawsuits
  21. Missionaries and Their Own Governments
  22. Responsibility of Missionaries For the Boxer Uprising
  23. The Chinese Christians
  24. The Strain of Readjustment to Changed Economic Conditions
  25. Comity and Cooperation

    PART V
    THE FUTURE OF CHINA AND OUR RELATION TO IT

  26. Is There a Yellow Peril
  27. Fresh Reason to Hate the Foreigner
  28. Hopeful Signs
  29. The Paramount Duty of Christendom

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