Excerpt from The Last Year in China, to the Peace of Nanking: As Sketched in Letters to His Friends, by a Field Officer, Actively Employed in That Country; With a Few Concluding Remarks on Our Past and Future Policy in China But if Europeans in China are comparatively uninteresting, there can be no doubt that the case is very different with regard to the Chinese themselves, and their very flowery land; and it is under this impression, as already stated, that this small volume, which concludes with a few remarks on our past and future policy in China, has'been published. 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.