CHAPTER XLVII. The Ports Opened to Japanese Commerce, 420 CHAPTER XLVIII. The Year of the Treaties, 433 CHAPTER XLIX. The Economic Condition of Corea, 443 CHAPTER L. Internal Politics: Chinese and Japanese, 458 CHAPTER LI. The War of 1894: Corea an Empire, 472 CHAPTER LII. Japan and Russia in Conflict, 484 CHAPTER LIII. Corea a Japanese Protectorate, 497 CHAPTER LIV. Chō-sen: A Province of Japan, 507 INDEX, 521 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE A City in Corea, Frontispiece. Corean Coin, 10 Coin of Modern Chō-sen, 18 The Founder of Fuyu Crossing the Sungari River, 20 Coin of the Sam-han, or the Three Kingdoms, 34 Coin of Korai, 69 Two-masted Corean Vessel, 75 The Walls of Seoul, 79 Magistrate and Servant, 81 Corean Knight of the Sixteenth Century, 101 Styles of Hair-dressing in Corea, 161 A Pleasure-party on the River, 196 Corean Village in Russian Territory, 211 Table Spread for Festal Occasions, 264 Gentlemen’s Garments and Dress Patterns, 275 Thatched House near Seoul, 282 Battle-flag Captured by the Americans in 1871, 305 Battle-flag Captured in the Han Forts, 1871, 320 House and Garden of a Noble, 355 Breech-loading Cannon of Corean Manufacture, 382 The Entering Wedge of Civilization, 407 I. ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL HISTORY COREA: THE HERMIT NATION. CHAPTER I. THE COREAN PENINSULA.