Chinese Sketches
by GILES, HERBERT
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- Hardcover
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Stevenson, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
204 pp. Original red cloth. Spine slightly faded, very light rubbing. Near fine.
FIRST EDITION. Sinologist Herbert A. Giles began his distinguished career was a British diplomat in China. There he wrote these literary and historical sketches to show that, contrary to prevailing Western views, "the Chinese are a hardworking, sober, and happy people, occupying an intermediate place between the wealth and culture, the vice and misery of the West." Giles later became professor of Chinese at Cambridge for thirty-five years.
Chapters include Position of Women, Etiquette, Literature, Education, Dentistry, Medical Science, Loan Societies, Guilds, Pawnbrokers, Postal Service, Slang, Fortune Telling, Games and Gambling, Jurisprudence, Buddhism, Superstition, Feng-Shui, Money, and more.
Provenance: East Asian Institute of Karl Marx University (now Leipzig University), withdrawn, with neat stamp on verso of title.
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- Bookseller
- 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32820449
- Title
- Chinese Sketches
- Author
- GILES, HERBERT
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Trubner
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1876
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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