Where half the world is waking up: the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions (Google eBook)

Clarence Hamilton Poe

Doubleday, Page & company, 1912 - Travel - 276 pages

Contents

• Snapshots of Japanese Life and Philosophy: 9
• CHAPTEB PAGE: 12
• Japanese Farming and Farmer Folk: 17
• Welfare Work in Japanese Factories: 29
• CHAPTER PAGE: 34
• Buddhism Shintoism and Christianity: 48
• CHAPTER PAGE: 52
• The Land of the Morning Calm: 60
• Pair and Fertile: 70
• Where Japan Is Absorbing an Empire: 78
• Light from China on Problems at Home: 93
• Awake and at Work: 102
• A Trip into Rural China: 116
• From Peking to the YangtzeKiang: 123
• Sidelights on Chinese Character and: 132
• Farewell to China: 142
• What I Saw in the Philippines: 153
• What the United States Is Doing in: 163
• Asias Greatest Lesson fob America: 173
• CHAPTER PAGE: 186
• Hinduism and the Himalayas: 198
• The Poor Benighted Hindus: 210
• Hindu Farming and Farm Life: 218
• The Caste System in India: 226
• The Plight of the Hindu Woman: 236
• More Leaves from an India Notebook: 246
• What the Orient May Teach Us: 261

Bibliographic information

• Title: Where half the world is waking up: the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions
• Author: Clarence Hamilton Poe
• Publisher: Doubleday, Page & company, 1912
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jul 22, 2010
• Length: 276 pages
• Subjects: Civilization, Oriental; East Asia; Travel / Asia / General