The questions of the unequal treaties, extraterritoriality, tariff autonomy, are deal with separately, as are the affairs of the Customs, Posts and Salt, the Treaty ports, and of Shanghai in particular. Other chapters tell the story of the Leased Territories and the position as regards the Chinese Government in relation to the Kuomintang and the Communists, loans, railway ' concessions, currency, wireless and mining enterprise are similarly analysed, as well as various other subjects. The result is a volume so divided that any reader requiring information and understanding as regards a particular subject has only to turn to the chapter which deals with it, What he will find may be judged by the fact that most of Sir Eric Teichman's service has been spent in the Chinese secretarian of the British Legation, and that his position, especially during his last ten years as Chinese Counseller, enables him to write with authority about all important matters affecting British interests. Naturally, he generally expresses the official view, but frequently ventilates his own opinions with point and force.
often critical of what he calls the Treaty-port view, and what he says in this respect is worthy of consideration, though -perhaps not welcome to, some who may read.
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