The Far East Cambridge Library Collection – Travel and Exploration in Asia Reissue 1st Edition by Archibald John Little ISBN 1108013872 978-1108013871

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ISBN 10:1108013872 

ISBN 13:978-1108013871

Author:Archibald John Little 

Written by one of the most prolific writers on China at the turn of the century, this 1905 publication was intended as a guide for travellers rather than as a scientific study of Asian landscape and culture. Little, a well-known merchant and traveller, spent fifty years of his life exploring the Orient. The book is structured with a chapter dedicated to each region of China and the ‘Dependencies’ (Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan, Tibet, Indo-China and Korea), as well as Siam and Japan. Little proves himself a shrewd observer of both landscape and peoples, and the content of his work is wonderfully detailed. He manages to encompass a wide range of subjects into his survey, including natural resources, the development of railways, trade routes and meteorology, as well as a history of the land mass and populations. The book is supplemented with several maps and illustrations.

Table of contents: 

 Part I. Trade and Politics:

1. Western China, its products and trade;

2. British trade with China;

3. Ex oriente lux;

 4. Two cities, London and Peking;

5. The value of Tibet to England;

6. The partition of China;

 7. How to register your trade mark;

Part II. Travel:

8. The romance of Chinese travel;

 9. A new road;

10. A Chinese sulphur bath;

11. The new rapid and the arrival of the first steamer in Chungking;

 12. The dangers of the Upper Yangtse;

 13. Szechuan revisited;

14. Yachting in the Chusan Archipelago;

15. Retrospect of events in China;

Part III. Drama and Legend:

16. The Chinese drama;

17. Borrowing boots;

18. Plot and counterplot;

 19. The rat’s plaint;

Part IV. Religion and Philosophy:

20. In a Buddhist monastery;

21. Missionaries;

22. Confucianism.

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