Excerpt from The Travelers' Handbook for China (Including Hongkong): With Nine Maps and Plans and Numerous Illustrations With an edition so thoroughly revised it was thought that the work of bringing out a third edition would be a very simple matter. But once the work of revision was undertaken it was found that China has changed tremend ously in the past few years. Scarcely a paragraph of the second edition has been allowed to stand unchanged and the work of revision which it was thought could be completed m a few months has dragged out over the better part of a year. As in former editions every effort has been made to bring the volume up to date but it is offered to the pub lic with the realization that no book of this character on a country which is changing so rapidly as China can ever be completely accurate. I wish to express my grateful appreciation to the many friends who have helped 1n the revision of this edition and especially to Mrs. Samuel Gouling who has patiently and painstakingly read all of the proofs and whose superior know ledge of China has added greatly to the value of this book. 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.