Excerpt from Twelve Years in China: The People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins During the interval many interesting events occurred; some of these will be described in the following pages. In pursuit of business and health, or impelled by curio sity, I saw more of the country and people than has fallen to the lot of most foreign residents in China. As I give some account of my experience in the follow ing pages, the reader will be enabled to judge whether my Opinion is of value. It is quite possible fora person to reside ...
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Excerpt from Twelve Years in China: The People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins During the interval many interesting events occurred; some of these will be described in the following pages. In pursuit of business and health, or impelled by curio sity, I saw more of the country and people than has fallen to the lot of most foreign residents in China. As I give some account of my experience in the follow ing pages, the reader will be enabled to judge whether my Opinion is of value. It is quite possible fora person to reside long in China, and yet know very little about it: even the best informed has much to learn. Native society is so constituted, that the people themselves are very ignorant upon many points relating to their country. I do not consider Government interpreters the best authorities on Chinese affairs; much of their time is taken up in studying old classics and official forms, and a great deal of their information is derived from native teachers, who are frequently spies of the mandarins. During my residence in China the empire has been disturbed by two distinct rebellions. Too little atten tion has been paid to these; the map which accompanies this volume will show how extensive they have been. 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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