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A really conclusive book on the subject of China has not yet appeared; perhaps, because most authors think they know too much about their subject. Final judgments are passed by almost every writer--deliberate, definite, unequivocal judgments. Yet when comparison is made they are found to be bewilderingly diverse and not infrequently flatly contradictory. It is the aim of this book to deal with these judgments by the more important writers and the premises on which they rest; to arrange them in juxtaposition and by so doing to extract some sort of satisfying truth--to allow the several authors, so to speak, to form a Parliament and each one have his say. -- Preface.
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