tion>Edwin John Dingle
Across China on Foot
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664644251
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTORY
THE CHAO-T'ONG REBELLION OF 1910
THE TRIBES OF NORTH-EAST YÜN-NAN, AND MISSION WORK AMONG THEM
CHAPTER XIII.
From the Straits to Shanghai
INTRODUCTORY
The scheme. Why I am walking across Interior China. Leaving Singapore. Ignorance of life and travel in China. The "China for the Chinese" cry. The New China and the determination of the Government. The voice of the people. The province of Yün-nan and the forward movement. A prophecy. Impressions of Saigon. Comparison of French and English methods. At Hong-Kong. Cold sail up the Whang-poo. Disembarkation. Foreign population of Shanghai. Congestion in the city. Wonderful Shanghai.
Through China from end to end. From Shanghai, 1,500 miles by river and 1,600 miles walking overland, from the greatest port of the Chinese Empire to the frontier of British Burma.
That is my scheme.
I am a journalist,
