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THE progress of China is by no means so rapid as some interested persons would have us believe, but beyond doubt the empire is at last moving in a direction favourable to the adoption of Western arts and sciences. The simple fact that telegraphs are being provided there is in itself evidence of the wonderful change which has taken place in the past few years in the attitude of the ruling body, and which not even the most sanguine among us could reasonably have anticipated, to go no farther back than the period of the Chefoo Convention in 1877.
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M., J. Telegraphs in China . Nature 37, 564–565 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037564a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/037564a0