THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 



MONTHLY. 



FEBRUARY, 1913 



THE GEOLOGIC HISTOKY OF CHINA AND ITS INFLUENCE 

 UPON THE CHINESE PEOPLE 



By Professor ELIOT BLACKWELDER 



UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN 



THE Chinese empire includes an area larger than the United States 

 with the addition of Alaska and our insular possessions. A large 

 part of this vast area, however, is made up of dependencies which are but 

 loosely joined to China proper, and are not essential to its integrity. 

 She has lost and regained these dependencies from time to time in the 

 past, and the same process may continue. The accompanying map will 

 serve to show the relation of these component parts of the empire to 

 each other and to surrounding countries. 



Divested of its outlying possessions, China consists of eighteen 



Fig. 1. Sketch Map of China, showing its outlying dependencies and its 



relations to other countries. 



