THE TAI RACE, ELDER BROTHER OF THE CHINESE: Results of Experience, Exploration &
by DODD, William C. Mrs. comp., ed
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Cedar Rapids 1923, Torch Press. Green cloth, very good, 353+ 21p., 56 b.w. photos. FIRST AND ORIGINAL EDITION R A R E The illiterate Tai: the back door to China, the Tai of Szechuan & Kwei Chow, the Yangtze Tai of Yunnan. From Burma to Canton: itinerating among the Buddhist Tai, illiterate Tai of Yunnan, Yunnan to the sea, across Yunnan in 1918. * In Indo-China and Kwangsi: Tongking Tai, Chino-Tai Commission, the gap in the map. The literate Tai: under four flags: in China, the Tai Nua, Tai Lu of Sipswang Panna, the Kukn, W. Shan, In French-Indo China, the Lao, In Siam: the Yun of N. Siam, Siamese. Sociology & religion, customs & characteristics, religious beliefs & practices. * A serious primary resource, fascinating in nature, by a long time foreign resident missionary. With a comparative Tai vocabulary. * THE ORIGINAL EDITION: This is the stunning original edition, nicely bound and illustrated. This is NOT the substandard reprint in shoddy binding, printed on poor quality thin paper ! * .
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- THE TAI RACE, ELDER BROTHER OF THE CHINESE: Results of Experience, Exploration &
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- DODD, William C. Mrs. comp., ed
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- Southeast Asia: Eclectic Items On Countries, Cultures & Subjects; Laos: Any About, Any Discipline; Siam & Thailand: All Items Related To This Country & Its Culture; Vietnam: Cochin-china, Tonkin, French-indo China: All Related; Cambodia; ;
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