id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 15125 Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons) The Awakening of China .txt text/plain 85065 4561 72 Passing from the Chinese city through the Great Central Gate we China, a tripod of empire, the hub of the universe, as the Chinese overlooking the Great River, I spent three years as aid to the viceroy conquests in China to the south of the "Great River" is still wanting, China; and its first act was the so-called Opium War (1839-42). which the Chinese emperors had permitted foreigners to open as as a mission field by the boom of British cannon in the Opium War. China was not opened; but five gates were set ajar against her of war and assured French people in China that if they refrained order of things open on China with a new century! They were not, like the Peking princes, ignorant Tartars, but Chinese with China; and they have made foreign nations known to the Chinese. to have the first place in the making of a New China. ./cache/15125.txt ./txt/15125.txt