Hörbuch: Across China on Foot

ACROSS CHINA ON FOOT
By EDWIN JOHN DINGLE
INTRODUCTORY
The scheme. Why I am walking across Interior China. Leaving Singapore. Ignorance of life and travel in China. The China for the Chinese cry. The New China and the determination of the Government. The voice of the people. The province of Yuen-nan and the forward movement. A prophecy. Impressions of Saigon. Comparison of French and English methods. At Hong-Kong. Cold sail up the Whang-poo. Disembarkation. Foreign population of Shanghai. Congestion in the city. Wonderful Shanghai. Through China from end to end. From Shanghai, 1,500 miles by river and 1,600 miles walking overland, from the greatest port of the Chinese Empire to the frontier of British Burma. That is my scheme. * * * * * I am a journalist, one of the army of the hard-worked who go down early to the Valley. I state this because I would that the tru