Nonfiction | Politics & Social Sciences
Free eBook

The Problem of China

By Bertrand Russell

2019-09-20 00:09:31

Excerpt........A European lately arrived in China, if he is of a receptive and reflective disposition, finds himself confronted with a number of very puzzling questions, for many of which the problems of Western Europe will not have prepared him. Rus ... Read more
Excerpt........A European lately arrived in China, if he is of a receptive and reflective disposition, finds himself confronted with a number of very puzzling questions, for many of which the problems of Western Europe will not have prepared him. Russian problems, it is true, have important affinities with those of China, but they have also important differences; moreover, they are decidedly less complex. Chinese problems, even if they affected no one outside China, would be of vast importance, since the Chinese are estimated to constitute about a quarter of the human race. In fact, however, all the world will be vitally affected by the development of Chinese affairs, which may well prove a decisive factor, for good or evil, during the next two centuries. This makes it important, to Europe and America almost as much as to Asia, that there should be an intelligent understanding of the questions raised by China, even if, as yet, definite answers are difficult to give. Less

Book Details

File size200.059 KB
Print pages196
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2020-11-29
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781426474583
autor-image
Bertrand Russell
Author
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 – 2 Feb 1970) was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominen...

Related Books

View All
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The Short Constitution
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The Customs of old England
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The wild tribes of Davao district, Mindanao
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Unconscious Memory
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Crime and Its Causes
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The English Constitution
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents William McKinley, Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Germania and Agricola
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of The Exposition
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Against Home Rule the Case for the Union
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
A Righte Merrie Christmasse: The Story of Christ-Tide
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Great Britain And the American Civil War
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Woman & the Republic: A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Napoleon the Little
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Pygmies and Papuans
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The System of Nature, Or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
Empire and Wars
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The Future of the American Negro
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
FREE
The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Reviews

Sign in to write a review

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free

Stay in touch.

© 2026 AMPLE READS