Identifier: reviewofreviewsw44newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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EDWARD THOMAS WILLIAMS (Americas diplomatic representative at the Chinese capital) service of the American Government. A passion for serving the two great nations of the East and the West, so unlike and yet so alike, may be found deep in the heart of this soft-spoken, unemotional man, who has been content to let others enjoy the limelight while he, in loyal cooperation with his chiefs, has quietly helped to bring things to pass. From Peking, after a short term in the important post at Tientsin as consul-general, he came to the newly organized Far Eastern Bureau of the State Department. Thus he knows the inner workings of the governments both in Washington and Peking. He has unequalled affiliations with theChinese in authority; and a close knowledge of the missionary body scattered throughout China. A better man to stand guard at this critical hour by the old flag under the shadow of the walls of Peking could not be made to order. 716 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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Z 2 M uJ ^ a: S Q 1 -J ^ a. ^ o =: UJ ^ UJ B uJ 2 °^ a. UJ & re E ^ .2 u b THE CHINESE REVOLT: A SURVEY BY ADACHI KINNOSUKE T^HE Chinese are no longer "bats in the night" of absolutism. On May 8, 1911, an Imperial edict was issued. On the frontpages of the newspapers on the following day, the world read of the birth of the first responsible cabinet in all the 4116 years of the life of China. It was a great step forward toward the constitutional state which was promised in the now historic edict of September I, 1906. The first National Assembly of China, under the name of the Tsucheng-yuan, was convoked on October 3, 1910. It did not do much that year, but only awfully rash people would say that it did nothing in October, 1911. Provincial Assemblies have been doing more or less effective work in making known the wishes of the people since they were called into existence on October 14, 1909. A constitution and a parliament were promised the people by the Empress Dowager; they were to

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