Gleanings from fifty years in China

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Advertising matter: p. 331-335 Reprinted, in part, from various periodicals Foreword / R.S. Cundry -- Editorial note -- pt. I. Triale and politics. Western China: its products and trade. British trade with China. Ex orientale lux. Two cities: London and Peking. The value of Tibet to England. The partition of China. How to register your trademark -- pt. II. Travel: the romance of Chinese travel. A new road. A Chinese sulphur bath. The New Rapid and the arrival of the first steamer in Chungking. The dangers of the upper Yangtse. Szechuan revisited. Yachting in the Chusan Archipelago. Retrospect of events in China -- pt. III. Drama and legend: the Chinese drama. Borrowing boots / [tr. from the original Chinese ; a two-hundred-year-old Chinese farce, still popular in China, and played at the present day]. Plot and counterplot / [a comedy in two acts, written by Archibald Little, in imitation of the Chinese style]. The rats plaint / [tr. from the original Chinese] -- pt. IV. Religion and philosophy: in a Buddhist monastery. Missionaries. Confucianism
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