China
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Excerpt from China: Her History, Diplomacy and Commerce, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day I have seen the Celestial in all these strange lands, under the conditions depicted by the historians, and I have been struck correspondingly with the fidelity of the Chinese annals. I cannot but think that I shall have made a bad use of my experience if it does not avail to help the British settler and trader to an intelligent acquaintance with his new home and customers. Coming now to speak of the assistance derived from the works of abler men, I must express my obligations first of all to two industrious physicians, who have found ample time amid the gaieties of Peking life to prescribe for the mind as well as for the "stinking bag" (as the Chinese poets call the body). I refer to Dr. S. W. Bushell of the British Legation, and Dr. E. Bretschneider of the Russian. Neither of these gentlemen is a professed sinologue (a word which may be defined as a murderer of the Chinese language, always on the look-out to slay his kind), but both of them have contributed more to accurate sinology than some others who "profess too much." Then come my former colleagues, rightly crowned with the appropriate laurel, to wit, Professor E. Chavannes of Paris, and Professor F. Hirth of Munich. I have found the works of both these gentlemen (often very stiff reading) particularly useful in confirming obscure points in history as to which I have sometimes been in doubt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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