Abstract

Chinese Provinces

The article presents information on the book "In Forbidden China. The d'Ollone Mission 1906-1909, China-Tibet--Mongolia," by Vicomte d'Ollone. The history of China is the story of a gradual process of conquest and amalgamation that began, probably, two thousand years before the Christian era and still continues. The peoples against whom this culture conquest has proceeded may be roughly divided into three convenient groups, the aborigines who occupied the fertile lands draining into the ocean, the Tibetans on the west, and the Tartars on the north. The Tibetans, though less successful as invaders, have conquered at different times various portions of the empire. Their main contribution to China has been the form of religion that now controls a majority of its inhabitants.