An American Engineer in China (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An American Engineer in China The author desires to take this opportunity to express his sense of personal obligation to Their Excellencies: Sheng, the director-general of Rail ways and Telegraphs, with whom the author was necessarily brought into close contact, Chang Chih-tung, the great central Viceroy, through whose territory the survey was made, and Wu Ting-fang, China's able representative in Wash ington, to Mr. Conger, the United States Minister at Peking, the latter particularly for such personal aid as his official position permitted, and to Mr. John Goodnow, United States consul-general at Shanghai. 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 technology 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.