Chinese Foreign Policy (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Chinese Foreign Policy The conquest of the "Middle Kingdom" by the early Chinese settlers, like the planting of the English colonies in America, Australia, and New Zealand, was by the ploughshare rather than by the sword. For they too found other races before them, the Miao and the Man, the Di and the Yi, who occupied the hills for the hunt and the plains for their flocks. But if they ploughed valley after valley and got possession of hillside after hillside, producing food for hundreds where their savage predecessors could scarcely feed units, they had from the first to protect with the sword the produce of the plough. If they have steadily and rapidly increased both in population and in the acreage reclaimed by their industry, they have never been able to lay aside the sword, for their nomad neighbours on all sides much preferred taking the grain for the granary to the toil of tillage. And only a study of her history can show how often China has had to bend her neck to the bondage of men who passed most of their lives in the saddle and knew nothing of the steady labour of the farm. 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.