And yet less than a year before, the Chinese had angrily destroyed
the property and venomously sought the lives of foreigners
who were as peaceably disposed as we were, ruthlessly
hunting men and women who had never done them wrong, and
who had devoted their lives to teaching the young and healing
the sick and preaching the gospel of love and good will. Why
they did this we shall have occasion to observe in a later
chapter.



PART II

The Commercial Force and the Economic
Revolution



VIII

WORLD CONDITIONS THAT ARE AFFECTING CHINA[20]


[20] Part of this chapter appeared as an article in the American Monthly
Review of Reviews, October, 1904.


SEVERAL outside forces have pressed steadily and heavily
upon the exclusiveness and conservatism of the
Chinese, and though they have not yet succeeded in