Excerpt from The Changing Chinese: The Conflict of Oriental and Western Cultures in China The old China hand is quite sure one can get nowhere by a diligent half year of travel and in quiry in the Far East. I have been here thirty years, says the Chief Engineer, and the longer I stay the less I understand these people. I thought I had made them out after I had lived here a couple of years, says the Trader, but the longer I am here the queerer they seem. No traveler, if he consults the old treaty-port resi dents, will ever ...
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Excerpt from The Changing Chinese: The Conflict of Oriental and Western Cultures in China The old China hand is quite sure one can get nowhere by a diligent half year of travel and in quiry in the Far East. I have been here thirty years, says the Chief Engineer, and the longer I stay the less I understand these people. I thought I had made them out after I had lived here a couple of years, says the Trader, but the longer I am here the queerer they seem. No traveler, if he consults the old treaty-port resi dents, will ever find courage to write anything about the Chinese. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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