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Author : Harry Alverson Franck
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Total Pages : 732 pages
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Download or read book Wandering in Northern China written by Harry Alverson Franck and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry A. Franck
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282477028
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wandering in Northern China (Classic Reprint) written by Harry A. Franck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wandering in Northern China At home there are numbers of young men, five or ten years out of college, who can tell you just what is the matter with the world, and exactly how to remedy it. I am more or less ready to agree with them that the world is going to the dogs. What of it? You have only to step outdoors on any clear night to see that there are hundreds of other worlds, which may be arranging their lives in a more intelligent manner. The most striking thing about these young political and sociological geniuses sitting in their suburban gardens or their city flats is that while they can toss off a recipe guaranteed to cure our own sick world overnight, if only some one can get it down its throat, they seldom seem to have influence enough in their own cozy little corner of it to drive out one grafting ward-heeler. In other words, if you must know what is to be the future of China, I regret that I have not been vouchsafed the gift of prophecy and cannot tell you. In the minor matter of Chinese words and names, I have deliberately not tried to follow the usual Romanization, but rather to cause the reader to pronounce them as nearly like what they are on the spot as is possible with our mere twenty-six letters. Of course I could not follow this rule entirely or I must have called the capital of China Bay-jing, have spoken of the evacuation of Shahn - doong, and so on; so that in the case of names already more or less familiar to the West I have used the most modern and most widely accepted forms, as they have survived on the ground. At that I cannot imagine what ailed the men who Romanized the Chinese language, but that is another story. 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.
Author : R. F. Johnston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333409388
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lion and Dragon in Northern China (Classic Reprint) written by R. F. Johnston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lion and Dragon in Northern China Cinderella beautiful and presentable before any Fairy Prince can be expected to find in her the lady of his dreams: and the Godmother has certainly not yet made her appearance, unless, indeed, the British Colonial Office is presumptuous enough to put forward a claim (totally unjustifiable) to that position. By no means do I, in the absence of the Fairy Prince, propose to ride knight-like into the lists of political controversy wearing the gage of SO forlorn a damsel in-distress as Weihaiwei. Let me explain, dropping metaphor, that the following pages will contain but slender contribution to the vexed questions of the strategic Importance of the port or of its potential value as a depot of commerce. Are not such things set down in the books of the official scribes? Nor will they constitute a guide-book that might help exiled Europeans to decide upon the merits of Weihaiwei as a resort for white-cheeked children from Shanghai and Hongkong, or as affording a dumping-ground for brass-bands and bathing-machines. On these matters, too, information is not lacking. As for the position of Weihaiwei on the playground of international politics, it may be that Foreign Ministers have not yet ceased to regard it as an interesting toy to be played with when sterner excitements are lacking. But it will be the aim of these pages to avoid as far as possible any incursion into the realm of politics: for it is not with Weihaiwei as a diplo matic shuttlecock that they profess to deal, but with Weihaiwe1 as the ancestral home of many thousands of Chinese peasants, who present a stolid and almost changeless front to all the storms and uctuations of politics and war. Books on China have appeared in large numbers during the past few years, and the production of another seems to demand some kind of apology. Yet it cannot be said that as a field for the ethnologist, the historian, the student of comparative religion and of folk-lore, the sociologist or the moral philosopher, China has been worked out. The demand for books that profess to deal in a broad and general way with China and its people as a whole has probably, indeed, been fully satisfied: but China is too vast a country to be adequately described by any one writer or group of writers, and the more we know about China and its people the more strongly we shall feel that future workers must confine themselves to less ambitious objects of study than the whole Empire. The pioneer who with his prismatic compass passes rapidly over half a continent has nearly finished all he can be expected to do; he must soon give place to the surveyor who with plane-table and theodolite will content himself with mapping a section of a single province. 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."
Author : C. F. Gordon Cumming
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484391993
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wanderings in China, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by C. F. Gordon Cumming and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wanderings in China, Vol. 1 of 2 The total population of Shanghai is estimated at In addition to the above, the boat population is reckoned at while foreigners and their retainers muster in the English settlement, in hong-kew, and in the French settlement. 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.
Author : Robert Fortune
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528345996
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China written by Robert Fortune and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries, With an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc The Author has been much gratified with the favourable manner in which the first edition of his work has been received by the public. It has been suggested by his friends, that it would be desirable in a new edition to enter more fully into the subject of Tea. He has therefore given some statistical information, tending to show the quantity of this production which is consumed by the Chinese themselves, as well as what they could spare for the European market, in the event of a greater demand arising from the reduction of tea duties. Attention has also been directed to our dominions in the north-west of India, which seem to possess all the requisites of a tea country. These, and some other additions which have been made to the work, will, it is hoped, render it more interesting. 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.
Author : Robert Fortune
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ISBN 13 : 9781298351418
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China written by Robert Fortune and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : C. F. Gordon Cumming
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666751492
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wanderings in China (Classic Reprint) written by C. F. Gordon Cumming and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wanderings in China Note earth-laden waters. - These Chinese rivers deposit such quantities of soil, that they are continually raising their chan nels higher and higher above the level of the surrounding plain; consequently it is not only necessary to construct stupendous embankments to keep the water-floods in their self-chosen beds, but also to continue ceaselessly raising and strengthening them. These cyclopean banks of mud, or of basket-work full of small boulders and faced with brick and stone, extend for hundreds of miles, and at some points are so high that to reach the summit one has to ascend sixty or seventy granite steps, above the level of the boundless plain, to find one's self standing on the brink of a swift mighty river, perhaps half a mile in width. Such banks have to be built so as to allow for the river's natural rise of fully 20 feet in the rainy season. It is evident that only by ceaseless vigilance can these enormous earthworks be kept in thorough repair, and Government officials are enjoined to bestow the utmost attention to this subject. Needful repairs are executed in winter and spring, when the waters are at the lowest, and enormous sums are thus expended even in ordinary years. But no amount of human care can always avail against the might of such a stream as the Great Yellow River, when, in autumn, it pours down from the mountains with about ten times its winter volume, flowing rapidly for a distance of about 2000 miles, its waters charged with sand and yellow earth, which it deposits all along its course, raising its bed and forming shallows, till at length the flood either overflows the channel or forces a passage through embankments, soddened by weeks of rain. Then follow appalling inundations, transforming whole counties into gigantic lakes, drown ing all living creatures, and covering the land with a deposit which, for one season at least, is fatal to all agriculture, and Often leaves great tracts transformed into feverish swamps. 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.
Author : T. M. Morris
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483849686
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Winter in North China (Classic Reprint) written by T. M. Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Winter in North China There is room for a variety of works describing other lands and other peoples. The works of those long resident in foreign lands who have made a calm and complete study of all they have seen, carry of necessity the highest authority, and are charged with elements of deeper interest. But it is obvious that part of what is gained in force is lost in freshness. By the time they write, they are so accustomed to the usages of the people that they have ceased to feel, and cannot therefore communicate, an interest in what at first struck them as so peculiar. The first impression has its own judicial value. There is, therefore, room for the work of those who write what they see, when they see it, with all the freshness of their own surprise. 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.
Author : William C. Hunter
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331218732
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bits of Old China (Classic Reprint) written by William C. Hunter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bits of Old China As inquiries for the books have become more and more numerous, I have decided to entrust Messrs. Kelly 8: Walsh, Limited, Shanghai, with the work of preparing a second edition Of each book, which, I trust, will meet the requirements Of all who are interested in the history Of the early intercourse Of foreigners with the people of China. The author Of these books died at Nice in June 1891, a few days after the failure of the firm of Russell co., with which he was connected for so many years of his early life in China. 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.
Author : Mrs. J. F. Bishop
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428927738
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chinese Pictures written by Mrs. J. F. Bishop and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chinese Pictures: Notes on Photographs Made in China 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.
