Present-Day China

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Excerpt from Present-Day China: A Narrative of a Nation's Advance When I arrived in China in May, 1913, constitutionalism was at the height of its power, the one seemingly permanent result of the Revolution of 1911. When I left, the principal opposition party to the President, the Kuo Ming Tang, had been outlawed and destroyed, the Parliament had been broken up, the leaders of constitutionalism and of the First Revolution had lost the Second Revolution, and had left the country with a price on their heads. When I started to write this book, the republic was threatened by a monarchy; when I had finished it, Yuan Shih-k'ai had declared himself Emperor. 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.