Author: W. H. Medhurst
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368191926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author: Walter Henry Medhurst
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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The aim of this book is to enlighten the home public as to the actual circumstances in which residents in that remote region find themselves, and to supply a few scraps of information respecting the Chinese themselves. I shall consider myself fortunate if it should lead to a better understanding in England of our true position and interests in "Far Cathay."--Provided by author in preface.

Author: Mark Swislocki
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804760128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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This book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine their future. It focuses on Shanghai?a food lover's paradise?and identifies the importance of regional food culture at pivotal moments in the city's history, and in Chinese history more generally.

Author: Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Author: Yale University. Divinity School. Day missions library
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Lucius N. Wheeler
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: John M. Carroll
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538157586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Early encounters between Britain and China are best known for igniting the First Opium War. Yet they also produced an enormous archive of writings by Britons who spent time in China. Frustrated with the restrictions imposed by the Manchu rulers of the Qing Empire, and unable to live or travel elsewhere apart from Canton and Macao, these diplomats, traders, missionaries, travelers, and military officers devoted thousands of pages to understanding China, its people, and their civilization. In China Hands and Old Cantons, John M. Carroll draws on this wealth of memoirs, ethnographic studies, travel accounts, narratives of military action, translations, and newspaper articles to trace Britons’ wide-ranging, often thoughtful perspectives on China, long before anyone considered going to war. They discussed almost everything they saw and speculated about much of what they could not see—including the size of China’s massive population, the extent of infanticide, the origins and practice of foot binding, and the legality and morality of the opium trade. They claimed that only those who had been there could truly understand the Middle Kingdom and that their firsthand experience gave them and their publications an advantage over those in Britain and elsewhere. Carroll brings a seminal period in the Anglo-Chinese relationship, which revolved around tea and opium, to life through the words of those who experienced it intimately.

Author: Frederick Wells Williams
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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