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WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UP
COUNT SHIGE-NOBU OKUMA OF JAPAN
(From a photograph and autograph given the author)
Count Okuma, one of the Genro or Elder Statesmen of Japan andex-Premier of the Empire, is an opponent of his country's highprotective tariff and an earnest advocate of internationalarbitration.
WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UP
THE OLD AND THE NEW IN JAPAN, CHINA, THE PHILIPPINES, AND INDIA,REPORTED WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO AMERICAN CONDITIONS
BY
CLARENCE POE
Author of "A Southerner in Europe," "Cotton: ItsCultivation
and Manufacture," Editor "The Progressive Farmer,"
Sec'y North Carolina Historical Association, etc., etc.
Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1911
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGNLANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY CLARENCE POE
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS
GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
TO
THE RIGHT HONORABLE JAMES BRYCE
IN WHOM ACHIEVEMENT, CHARACTER AND PERSONAL CHARM MEET IN RARESYMMETRY; WHO HAS WON THE WISDOM OF AGE WITHOUT LOSING THE DEW OPYOUTH; AND WHOSE GENEROUS FRIENDSHIP HAD MADE ME HIS DEBTOR BEFORE ITAIDED ME ANEW IN PLANNING AND EXECUTING MY ORIENTAL TOUR
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PREFACE
"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong," as Mr.Gilbert Chesterton begins one of his books by saying, has half itsmembers in Asia. That Americans should know something about soconsiderable a portion of our human race is manifestly worth while.And really to know them at all we must know them as they are to-day.
Vast changes are in progress, and even as I write this, the revolutionin China, foreshadowed in the chapters written by me from thatcountry, is remaking the political life of earth's oldest empire. FromJapan to India there is industrial, educational, political ferment.The old order changes, yielding place to the new.
"Where Half the World is Waking Up" is not inappropriate therefore asthe title of the book now offered to the public. The reader willkindly observe here that I have written of where half the world