Among the Sons of Han: Notes of Six Years' Residence in Various Parts of China and Formosa (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Treatises on the same subject, and that thus the notes might be the humble means of contributing, however slightly, to a better knowledge of China and the Chinese. Two or three of the short sketches have already appeared anonymously in a Shanghai news paper, and a few others formed the substance of an article in a recent number of Tinsleys' Magazine. For the information of those who are not sufficiently familiar with Chinese topics, it may be advisable to explain, with reference to the title of this book, that, as the Han dynasty, b.c. 202 to a.d. 221 - contemporaneous with so much that is memorable in Western annals - was one of the most glorious epochs in Chinese history, so amongst the various designations applied to Chinamen at the present day, the most flattering and the most honourable, the synonym of all that is brave and good, is the popular term Han izz'i, or Son of Han. The accompanying map shows at a glance the extent of our wanderings in China, and the various places - some of them but little known to Europeans - visited by us and described in the following.

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