Download or read book Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria (Classic Reprint) written by Choson Unhaeng and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria We have compiled this album to commemorate the decennial of our establishment which falls on the 29th of October of this year. On this date, ten years ago, our institution was established as the central bank of Chosen, when the conditions in the country were very different from what they are now. This period of ten years has seen a great change in the conditions of both country and Bank. The progress of the one has matched well the progress of the other, and indeed the progress of both has been so closely allied that one can hardly understand the progress of the Bank of Chosen unless aided by some knowledge of the progress of the country itself, and this, we believe, constitutes ample reason for publishing on this memorable occasion in the history of the Bank a book of this sort, the principal purpose of which is to show the progress of the country made in recent years. Manchuria was added to our field of business rather late in this period of ten years, yet the progress of our business there has been so rapid that the land has now more of our branches than Chosen itself. Moreover, so far as the Kwantung Province and the South Manchuria Railway Zone are concerned, we enjoy there a position exactly the same as we enjoy in Chosen - that of the central bank - and naturally what we have said of Chosen holds true of Manchuria. Hence we have ample reason for including that country, too, in this album. Other fields of the Bank have just been touched upon as supplementary, with the exception of Japan which is already well known to the world at large. In compiling this album our first endeavour was to procure good pictures with enough variety in them to represent every phase of social and economic progress, and the next, to link together these pictures with words, so that pictures and words would help each other in giving as true an idea as possible about the countries concerned. We take this opportunity of wishing health and prosperity to our friends and customers to whom this album is addressed with the compliments of the season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.