Excerpt from Progress of India, Japan, and China in the Century This work relates to two great Continents and one large group of Islands. Consequently it is divided into three Parts - namely, I., India; II., Japan; III., China. I have narrated in a succinct manner the progress during the nineteenth century of three peoples, the Indian with a population of about three hundred millions, the Japanese with a population of nearly forty-five millions, the Chinese with a population of over three hundred and fifty millions; or about seven hundred millions in all. Now if the usually accepted estimate of the population of all countries in the world put together - namely, fourteen hundred millions - approaches the truth, it follows that this work has to summarise the progress of half the human race for a century. The space of time, 1800 to 1899, has been borne in mind. The information in all cases has been brought up to date as nearly as possible, and in many cases up to the time of writing. Moreover these countries have during the century been the scenes of grave, and often complex, events. Each country, too, has undergone momentous changes. 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.