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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Through the Yang-Tse Gorges: Or Trade and Travel in Western ChinaThe following pages comprise little more than a transcript of the journal kept by me during a two months' journey from Shanghai, the metropolis of the coast, to Chung-king, the commercial metropolis of Western China. This journal was written up each night, as I travelled along in the native boat, and was despatched home by successive mail for the amuse ment of my fri...

Excerpt from The Fairy Foxes: A Chinese Legend Told in EnglishElma. 'fihafi You an 9 ya me? Fir? We're Hardly? Servant. (if then In came to take an pup. Qifi_' Wine. 6111-1, swered Chin) bring me of hashed' gbe'ef. See orders careful that Lordship shou Chiri, after' him, Was 'reappeared take m réqm.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a rep...

Excerpt from Round About My Peking GardenPehtang or Northern Cathedral, when intact, was but a fine church, built to replace that earlier Northern Cathedral to which the Dowager Empress had objected as overlooking her garden, and which was therefore just about to be ceded to her on the occasion of our previous visit. But now its facade riddled with shot, its aisles propped up by many beams, the trees behind with their bark gnawed off - one of ...

Excerpt from Out in ChinaHE is such a really good fellow, said Forbes, an Outport Consul, in Shanghai for a holiday, though nominally to consult the dentist.It was that hour of the morning when men are apt to wax affectionate, but it was his being such a warm friend made James Forbes so much liked, far more than his cleverness. One would not like to think of Lindsay having his life spoilt, he went on.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishe...

Excerpt from Marriage in China, Vol. 5Yes Claude Fortescue, that is my dear boy's name. My sister married Captain Fortescue on his return from India on his return from India, ' she repeated musingly. He did not live many years, and my sister died just before Claude went out to China. It was almost as well, it would have been such a great grief to her. But then, I suppose, he would not have gone. To let you into a little secret, I think he was ...

Excerpt from Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen ThemArriving in Shanghai. - My First Tea-season. Inside a Chinese City. - Shanghai Gardens - In the Romantic East at last!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the w...

Excerpt from Gleanings From Fifty Years in ChinaIt was while engaged in his earlier trips on the Upper Yangtse that Mr. Little collected material for the inter esting book (published in 1888) entitled Through the Yangtse Gorges, which established his reputation as a graphic and sympathetic writer on China. This was followed some years later (1901) by Mount Omi and Beyond, which introduced us to the little-known region of Szechuan on the Thibet...

Excerpt from The Land of the Blue GownMay those who read these pages gain at least some insight into the many redeeming qualities of that last survival from the Past of Nineveh and Babylon, of Alexandria and Pompeii - the Chinese nation of to-day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten ...

Excerpt from Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border, With Map and IllustrationsIN publishing an account of what might almost be called A Walking Tour on the Thibetan Border, I tender no addition to the records of geographical exploration, but simply a picture of China as it exists far removed from Western influence - a China which must ere long pass away as old Japan has done, though with slower steps. Many travellers ...

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Excerpt from Across Yunnan and Tonking: Part I, Between Two Capitals, Part II, Yunnanfu to the Coast The Yunnan plateau falls abruptly to the valley of the Yangtze to the north, to the valleys of the Mekong, Yalween, and Irrawaddy on the west and to that of the Red River on the south, involving, in each case, a sudden change from a temperate to a tropical climate, which the inhabitants of the plateau (and vice vend those of the border lands) ...

My Diary in a Chinese Farm is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publish...