Select List of Books ... Relating to the Far East

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• Release date: Dec 20, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066141004

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Select List of Books ... Relating to the Far East

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SELECT LIST OF BOOKS (WITH REFERENCES TO PERIODICALS) RELATING TO THE FAR EAST

RUSSIA: HISTORY, POLITICS, ETC.

RUSSIAN EXPANSION

RUSSIAN EXPANSION: ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS

TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD

TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY: ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS

TIBET

TIBET: ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS

MANCHURIA

MANCHURIA: ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS

JAPAN

JAPAN: ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS

KOREA

KOREA: ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS

RUSSO-JAPANESE RELATIONS

RUSSO-JAPANESE RELATIONS: ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS

FAR EAST: AMERICAN RELATIONS

FAR EAST: AMERICAN RELATIONS: ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS

FAR EAST: EUROPEAN RELATIONS

ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS

ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS: ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS.

CHINA

AUTHOR INDEX

COMPILED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

APPLETON PRENTISS CLARK GRIFFIN

CHIEF BIBLIOGRAPHER

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1904

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PREFATORY NOTE

RUSSIA: HISTORY, POLITICS, ETC.

RUSSIAN EXPANSION

TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD

TIBET

MANCHURIA

JAPAN

KOREA

RUSSO-JAPANESE RELATIONS

FAR EAST: AMERICAN RELATIONS

FAR EAST: EUROPEAN RELATIONS

ANGLO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS

CHINA

AUTHOR INDEX

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PREFATORY NOTE

Table of Contents

This List deals with the later conditions in the Far East. The political and economic aspects are the special subjects dealt with. For convenience of consultation the titles are arranged under the following subdivisions: Russia; History, politics, etc.; Russian expansion; Trans-Siberian railroad; Tibet; Manchuria; Japan; Korea; Russo-Japanese relations; Far East: American relations; Far East: European relations; Anglo-Russian relations; and China.

History of Russia.—A compendium of Russian history is Morfill's A history of Russia from the birth of Peter the Great to Nicholas II. Rambaud's The history of Russia is a work of greater extent, the later editions bring the history down to 1904. In Wallace's Russia the history stops at 1877.

Recent works in English on the internal affairs of Russia are Brüggen's Russia of to-day; Drage's Russian affairs; Latimer's Russia and Turkey in the nineteenth century; Leroy-Beaulieu's The empire of the tsars and the Russians; Palmer's Russian life in town and country; and Schierbrand's Russia, her strength and her weakness. The volumes issued by the Russian government in connection with the World's Columbian exposition contain much statistical information. Works in foreign languages to be specially noted are: Anspach's La Russie économique et l'œuvre de M. de Witte; Brüggen's Das heutige Russland; Danielson's Histoire du développement économique de la Russie depuis l'affranchissement des serfs; Delage's Chez les Russes; Deschamps's La Russie au 20me siècle; Kovalevskiĭ's La Russie à la fin du 19e siècle; Kupchanko's Russland in Zahlen; Machat's Le développement économique de la Russie; Niet's La Russie d'aujourd'hui and Strannik's La pensée russe contemporaine.

Russian navy.—Clarke's Russia's sea-power, past and present; or, The rise of the Russian navy and Jane's The imperial Russian navy; its past, present, and future.

Russian expansion.—Rambaud's The expansion of Russia is a valuable economic study. Skrine's The expansion of Russia, 1815-1900 is a sympathetic record down to 1900; Norman's All the Russias inclines to look with favor on Russian policies; Beveridge's The Russian advance is the result of a study of conditions made in a visit in 1901 and is commendatory of Russia; Chirol's The middle eastern question considers phases of Russian expansion with special regard to Russian relations with Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet, and to the position of the Indian empire; Gerrare's Greater Russia is written with the object of conveying an adequate idea of Russia's advance: her industrial progress, commercial prospects, the openings presented for both capital and labour, the markets closed to foreign enterprise. G. Frederick Wright in his work entitled Asiatic Russia holds that except in the case of the United States, no other nation of the world has before it the clear field for expansion that Russia has in her Asiatic possessions, and no other nation has more completely at her command the material and moral resources of modern science and Christian civilization than she has, if she but continues to use them rightly. Krahmer's Russland in Asien is a detailed history in six volumes, of which a single volume is devoted to a special phase of Russian activities in the Far East.

Trans-Siberian railway.—There are numerous travellers' accounts including Cary's The Trans-Siberian route; or, Notes of a journey from Pekin to New York in 1902; Lynch's The path of empire; Shoemaker's The great Siberian railway from St. Petersburg to Pekin; Simpson's Side-lights on Siberia. Some accounts of the great Siberian railroad, the prisons and the exile systems; Vladimir's Russia on the Pacific, and the Siberian railway and others in the articles in periodicals noted on pp. 19-21 of this List. The sumptuous volume printed by the Russian Ministry of ways of communication, printed in English under the title Guide to the Great Siberian railway is to be specially noted. The account published by the United States Bureau of statistics in its Monthly summary of commerce and finance, April, 1899, contains valuable material.

Manchuria.—Hosie's Manchuria: its people, resources and history is a good first hand authority. Whigham's Manchuria and Korea is a study of political and economic conditions as well as descriptive.

History of Japan.—Recent works are Brinkley's Japan; its history, arts and literature; Diósy's The new Far East; Griffis's The Mikado's empire. 10th ed., including history to beginning of 1903; Gulick's Evolution of the Japanese, social and psychic; Koch's Japan. Geschichte nach japanischen Quellen und ethnographischen Skizzen; Murray's The story of Japan and Ransome's Japan in transition. A history of Japan in restricted compass is given in the second volume of Helmolt's The world's history, a survey of man's record.

The recent descriptive works are:—Brinkley's Japan; its history, arts and literature and the volume he has edited entitled Japan; described and illustrated by the Japanese; written by eminent Japanese authorities and scholars; Browne's Japan; the place and the people; Brownell's The heart of Japan; Chamberlain's Things Japanese and the guide written with W. B. Mason entitled A handbook for travellers in Japan; Dumolard's Le Japon politique, économique, et social; Scherer's Japan today; Singleton's Japan as seen and described by famous writers; Sladen's Queer things about Japan; Gilbert Watson's Three rolling stones in Japan and W. Petrie Watson's Japan; aspects & destinies.

The Japanese navy.—F. T. Jane's The imperial Japanese navy is similar in scope to his book on the Russian navy and is of likewise timely value.

Japanese art is treated in Anderson's The pictorial arts of Japan; Brinkley's The art of Japan and his Japan; described and illustrated by the Japanese; written by eminent Japanese authorities and scholars; with an essay on Japanese art by Kaluzo Okakura; Okakura's The ideals of the East, with special reference to the art of Japan; and Rein's The industries of Japan. Together with an account of its agriculture, forestry, arts, and commerce.

Korea.—Hamilton's Korea is to be noted as a comprehensive account giving results of recent observations. Underwood's Fifteen years among the top-knots; or, Life in Korea gives a picture of missionary life in Korea.

The literature consisting of magazine articles on the present war is noted under the heading Russo-Japanese relations on pp. 40-48 of this List.

A selection of titles relating to the political interests of the United States in the Far East is given on pp. 49-52 of this List. It includes some works dealing with the first appearance of Americans in Asiatic countries and the history of their participation in Far Eastern affairs. In the section devoted to Anglo-Russian relations are noted works dealing with the Russian advance in Central Asia and its effects upon English interests.

History of China.—An extensive work is Boulger's The history of China, first published in 1881-1884, and revised editions in 1898 and 1900, respectively. Its chief value lies in its detailed account of European progress in China subsequent to the signing of the treaty of Nankin in 1842, including the Taeping rebellion in all its phases and Gordon's campaign. The earlier part of his history is drawn mainly from