A String of Chinese Peach-Stones (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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China was once regarded as such an out-oi-the-way place that Walpole has a story of the Duchess of Kingston, who, on being told that the end of the world was close at hand, declared that she would start for China without delay. In which outlandish region certain of her countrymen have been in close touch With the natives for years, feeling as much at home among them for days together as though it were their own land.

It used to be -a truism that the study of the written hieroglyphs was the passage of the wilderness of the Chinese language to reach the desert of Chinese literature. That there is much desert, and few willow trees in some parts, no one will deny. But there are many spots where the varied foliage of the hill-slopes lends a grateful colour to the dull brown villages, and even the willow tree affords a touch of nature to the grey and white mazes of a city of slums. N or are pavilions and pagodas to be despised - they are bricks and tiles in blossom.

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