Excerpt from The Foreigner in China Sublime courage of the leader - Progress of the Insurrection - The Bible adopted as a sacred book - Religious practices and organizations - Morning devotions - Occupations of Nanking - Movement toward the rthern capital - Disastrous end of a brilliant campaign - Foreigners take part against the Ti pings - The last hope of the Heavenly Dynasty expires - The rebel chief commits suicide - His son put to death - The imperial edict; The Paris of China - A cathedral - The foreign settlement - The island of Hong-kong - Harbor and shipping - A mixed population - Street scenes - Sources of culture and amusement - Exiles from home - The last resting-place - Shanghai - The foreign city - Various open ports - A barbarous Anglo-Chinese dialect - Unhappy breach between merchants and missionaries - The imperial customs under Robert Hart - Light-houses - The arsenal at Kiang-nan - Government works under foreign direction at Foo-chow - Account of their origin and remarkable progress - The foreign drill-master - The civil service reform - Government schools at canton and Shanghai - The imperial college - The educational mission to America - Introduction of various western improvements - A progressive mandarin - Origin of the Burlingame Mission - The foreign ministers admitted to audience - The strength and future progress of Western ideas - Our Chinese policy About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.