Sketches in and Around Shanghai, Etc (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Clark, J. D.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Sketches in and Around Shanghai, Etc These "Sketches," hasty limnings in printer´s ink, have for the most part appeared at irregular intervals in the Shanghai Mercury, and in some cases have already been published in book form. They are now republished in extenso, in the hope that they may prove of some utility, or offer some amusement to that section of the great English-speaking public who take an interest in the peoples and manners of the Far East. They do not pretend to enter into abstruse questions of polity or science, but take up the more familiar matters of daily life, as they present themselves in the microcosm known as Shanghai, It may be said that the Chinaman is many-sided :the Chinese Question decidedly is, - but on that we do not propose to enter. However, the individual, if not many-sided, - for it is out of order to speak of sides in a figure whose complaisant roundness takes the place of European angularity, - to be understood, requires to be painted from many points of view. From one of them, that of the ordinary resident in one of the Treaty Ports, the present "Sketches" are taken. Withal, it is a by no means easy matter for the average European to evolve from his inner consciousness the native of the Middle Kingdom, as the Chinaman loves to call his home. The Willow Pattern is still the predominant image in our imaginations. Faces like the moon, moustaches drawn out and drooping at the ends, eyes set at strange angles with the horizon, long tails, and hats shaped like pagodas are, of course, his predominant features. 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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