Excerpt from China's New Constitution and International Problems In their original dress the following chapters first appeared in the China Press, the defunct Peking Gazette, etc. Acting upon the advice of numerous friends who are good enough to consider that the same should be preserved for the public in a more accessible and permanent form than* being tucked away in the various newspaper files extending over seven months, they are now collated together in a book form. With the exception of a few verbal changes, here and there, no serious attempt has been made to add or subtract anything from the original text. Thus Part II on Diplomatic Relations between China and the Powers since and concerning the European War remains as it was first published, it being thought that the events posterior to the formal declaration of war between this country and the Central Powers may be more conveniently dealt with in their composite character on a future occasion or by other abler pens. The papers were written between the spare hours of daily classroom work from December, 1916, to July, 1917, as Lecturer on International Law, when opportunities for exhaustive checking or verification of all available data or references were limited. 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.