The Great Walk of China: Travels on Foot from Shanghai to by Graham Earnshaw

By Graham Earnshaw

What sort of humans might you meet when you determined to stroll around the world's such a lot populous kingdom? the nice stroll of China is a trip into China's heartland, clear of its surging coastal towns. via unusually frank conversations with the folks he meets alongside the way in which, the Chinese-speaking writer paints a portrait of a kingdom suffering to return to phrases with its newfound id and its position on this planet.

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30, 1913, No. 206. O. Register, Jan. 18, Feb. 15 and Dec. 10, 1913. In January the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarded the agreement as nul et non-avenu as they could take no action with 16 SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS PRIOR TO 1954 The problem was to ensure the reality of autonomy for Tibet while leaving China sufficient dignity. After both parties had stated their position McMahon devised a distinction between Outer Tibet, roughly west of the Yangtse, where Chinese influence would be severely restricted and their presence limited to one high official with an escort of 300 men, and Inner Tibet, a broad peripher al area next to China, where it could send officials and troops, but which could not be converted into a Chinese province.

15. , A buneh olold letters, Nos. 335, 348 from Madame Chiang Kai-shek. 5 Bimla Prasad, op. , p. 223. 8 Interview with United Press, Jan. 1, 1946. 24 SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS PRIOR TO 1954 be tied to an organisation in which India was predominant and their tactics were to keep India's influence within bounds. 1 Their representatives refused to enter the conference hall until the map showing Tibet as aseparate state, was removed. 2 From the outset the Chinese leaders were apprehensive about the Tibetan delegation, but it scarcely participated in the discussions and never mentioned freedom movements in its country.

Op. , p. 454. C. " China, in her new-found strength, had acted sometimes in a manner which he deeply regretted, but should be viewed against the background of the long period of struggle and frustration and the insolent treatment it - and other Asian countries - had received from imperialist powers. It was no longer safe to ignore the feelings of hundreds of millions of people. India, with two thousand years of friendship with China behind her, had some "differences of opinion and even small conflicts," but was aided by that long past in understanding China.

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