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America Through the Spectacles of
an Oriental Diplomat
by Wu Tingfang, LL.D.Late Chinese Minister to the
United States of America, Spain, Peru,Mexico and Cuba;
recently Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of
Justice for the Provincial Government of the Republic of
China, etc.
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Preface
Of all nations in the world, America is the most interesting
to the Chinese.A handful of people left England to explore
this country:gradually their number increased, and, in
course of time,emigrants from other lands swelled the
population. They were governed by officials from the
home of the first settlers, but when it appeared to them
that they were being treated unjustly, they rebelled and
declared war against their rulers, the strongest nation on
the face of the earth.After seven years of strenuous,
perilous, and bloody warfare,during which thousands of
lives were sacrificed on both sides,the younger race shook
off the yoke of the older, and England was compelled to
recognize the independence of the American States.
Since then,in the comparatively short space of one
hundred and thirty years,those revolutionists and their
descendants, have not only made the commonwealth the
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richest in the world, but have founded a nation whose
word now carries weight with all the other great powers.
The territory at first occupied was not larger than one or
two provinces of China, but by purchase, and in
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