The Boy Fortune Hunters in China

(1909)

Written by Floyd Akers, pseudonym of L. Frank Baum.

FOREWORD

Those readers who have penetrated far into
the Chinese Empire, as has the author, will be
quick to discover that he has substituted for the
name of the Thibetan Province one that will not
be recognized.

The reasons for this are evident. Ancestor
worship is still the prevailing creed of the most
numerous class of Chinese, and a violation of the
sanctity of any ancestral chih, or underground
tomb, would naturally be resented if it disgraced a
family so important as that of a royal prince of
the realm.

The Chinese characters presented in the story
are drawn from life. Prince Kai Lun Pu is a
well-known type of the liberal-minded, educated
young men who are the best guarantee of the
future expansion of the Celestial Empire. The
rule of the Chief Eunuch still dominates every
palace in China, and even the efforts of the late
Dowager Empress could not restrain the encroaching
powers of these masterful creatures.

The manners and customs herein described
will serve to acquaint those who have not visited
China with some of the most curious traditions
of that ancient race, while the adventures related,
startling as they are, are fully within the
bounds of possibility.

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