Identifier: chineseempiregen1907broo (find matches)
Title: The Chinese empire: a general & missionary survey ..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Broomhall, Marshall, 1866- ed
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: London, Morgan & Scott Philadelphia, China inland mission (etc., pref
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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s,away into the country, five miles to the north and west ofthe Bund, stretch the residences of foreign merchants. The total foreign population of the International Settle-ment of Shanghai is 11,497. Of this number 3713 areBritish, 2157 are Japanese, 1329 are Portuguese, 991 areAmerican, 785 are German, and 393 are French. There isa French Settlement outside the International Settlementin which there are a few hundred more French subjects,the remaining population being divided amongst twentyother nationalities. The Chinese population is 452,716.If we consider the large Chinese population in the FrenchConcession, in the native city, and in the villages just outsidethe bounds of the Settlement, it is probable that the Chinesepopulation of Shanghai is not less than one million. The first railway in China was laid down betweenShanghai and Woosung (12 miles) in 1876. The Chinesewere bitterly opposed to this enterprise from the first, andafter a few months they succeeded in buying the whole
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THE PEOVINCE OF KIANGSU 83 plant from the foreign firm which had the concession, andthen immediately tore up the rails. The line was relaidand opened to traffic in 1898. The railway is being carriedwestward to Soochow, which section is now nearly completed.The other sections to Nanking and to Wuhu are in courseof construction and will be rapidly pushed to completion.The Chinese are now as keen to get railways as theywere formerly opposed to them. The poor as well as therich subscribe eagerly for shares, and those who reckonedthat the Chinese were too poor to build their own railwayswithout foreign assistance are likely to get a surprise.Another important railway, one from Nanking to Tientsin,is projected, but the concessionaires have been so dilatory incommencing the work, that the Chinese are now clamour-ing for the retrocession of the permission to construct theline. When these railways are finished Kiangsu will havetwo great trunk lines running east and west and north andsouth thro

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