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Ssu-ch'uan and Yun-nan after the Manchu conquest from the Hu 

 Kuang provinces and the similar movement to Ssu-ch'uan during 

 the great T'ai-p'ing rebellion. The emigration from Shan-hsi into 

 southern and eastern Mongolia after the famine of 1877-78, and that 

 from Shan-tung and Chih-li into Manchuria still going on — are the 

 most important recent movements of population to outlying parts 

 of the Chinese Empire. The emigration to southern Asia and to 

 remoter parts of the world is drawn exclusively from the provinces 

 of Fu-kien and Kuang-tung, and though considerable, is not so large 

 as to affect to any appreciable degree the rough figures of population 

 we hope to establish. 1 



Very little accurate information has come to us as to the death- 

 rate in any given locality of China ; in fact the only official data I 

 know of is the death-rate in Peking during one year, 1845, ^ or which 

 year we have also the returns of a detailed census of the population 

 within the Peking city walls. These were obtained by Sacharoff 

 and published in his valuable study, cited previously. According to 

 them the population of Peking within the walls in 1845 was 1,648,- 

 814, and the number of deaths (exclusive of infants and small chil- 

 dren — say under 5 years of age) during the whole year was 39,438, 



1 The following figures relative to Chinese emigration, taken from Export 

 of April 14, 1904, a German paper devoted to commercial geography, first 

 appeared in Gottwaldt's work on Chinese emigration. The greater part of 

 the Chinese emigration originates in the southern Provinces, Shan-tung being 

 the only northern Province that furnishes any large proportion of emigrants 

 from China. 



The number of Chinese outside of China is as follows : 



Country Number. 



Formosa 2,600,000 



Siam 2,500,000 



Malay Peninsula 985,000 



Sunda Islands 600,000 



Hongkong 274,543 



America 272,829 



Indo-China 150,000 



Philippines 80,000 



Country 



Macao 



Burma 



Australia 



Asiatic Russia 



Japan 



Korea 



Total 



Number. 



74,568 

 40,000 

 30,000 

 25,000 



7,000 

 3,7io 



7,642,650 



The following figures show the number of persons that left China and 

 Hongkong and returned during the last twenty-six years : 



China and Hongkong. 



Amoy ( Fu-kien ) 



Swatow ( Kuang-tung) 



Kiung-chou ( Hainan) 



Hongkong 



Left. 



1,629,947 



1,794,298 



298,772 



1,130,000 



Returned 



1,309,787 



1,307,744 



296,233 



1,090,000 



