China

by Demetrius Charles Boulger

This is as in depth historical account of China with empathizes on the more modern history. The history begins, "The Chinese are unquestionably the oldest nation in the world, and their history goes back to a period to which no prudent historian will attempt to give a precise date. They speak the language and observe the same social and political customs that they did several thousand years before the Christian era, and they are the only living representatives to-day of a people and government which were contemporary with the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and the Jews. So far as our knowledge enables us to speak, the Chinese of the present age are in all essential points identical with those of the time of Confucius, and there is no reason to doubt that before his time the Chinese national character had been thoroughly formed in its present mold. The limits of the empire have varied from time to time under circumstances of triumph or disunion, but the Middle Kingdom, or China Proper, of the eighteen provinces has always possessed more or less of its existing proportions."

Genres: History

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1893

About the author

Demetrius Charles Boulger was an English author.

He was educated at the Kensington School. Beginning in 1876 Boulger contributed to the important British journals on questions concerning India, China, Egypt and Turkey. With Sir Lepel Griffin he founded in 1885 the Asiatic Quarterly Review and edited it during the first four and one-half years of its publication.