| An account of China and Germany's diplomatic relations from 1898 to 1930's with a description of relations before 1898. The author offers discussion on the admission of Kiaochow by Germany. Germany's participation in the Boxer Expedition; China. Germany and the World War, and German cultural, commercial, and industrial enterprises in China "The author purpose of writing this dissertation is twofold: first, to present historical facts as they are in the diplomatic relations between China and Germany during the different periods alter 1898; and second, to disclose to the world the example of Germany whose aggressive policy toward China in the beginning had left nothing of permanent value save hatred and animosity, although her new status in China as a non-extraterritorial power has gained her the growth of an amicable feeling between the two peoples and a rapid increase of trade, which none of the special privileges enjoyed by Germany before the World War had been able to procure" |