Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China"Things," of course, was intended by the author to include the people, their ideas and actions, and the results of those ideas and actions, and of their interactions. -- Preface. |
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... missionaries find it the most formidable obstacle to the introduction of Christianity ; the Mohammedans in China do not allow it ; and it is one of the strongholds of opposition to all Western progress and science . Believing that the ...
... missionaries find it the most formidable obstacle to the introduction of Christianity ; the Mohammedans in China do not allow it ; and it is one of the strongholds of opposition to all Western progress and science . Believing that the ...
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... missionaries at Peking attempted to introduce the principles of Western art as applied to painting , but , though they executed numerous works , the Chinese were not far enough advanced in Western notions to adopt such a complete ...
... missionaries at Peking attempted to introduce the principles of Western art as applied to painting , but , though they executed numerous works , the Chinese were not far enough advanced in Western notions to adopt such a complete ...
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... Missionaries , merchants , military and naval men , scholars , professors , teachers , interpreters , consuls and vice - consuls , ambassadors and diplomats , statesmen , travellers and globe - trotters , literary men , reviewers ...
... Missionaries , merchants , military and naval men , scholars , professors , teachers , interpreters , consuls and vice - consuls , ambassadors and diplomats , statesmen , travellers and globe - trotters , literary men , reviewers ...
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... missionaries . But we have already occupied more than enough space in this rapid survey of books treating of China and the Chinese , and have necessarily left many works unnoticed . The number pro- duced has increased enormously within ...
... missionaries . But we have already occupied more than enough space in this rapid survey of books treating of China and the Chinese , and have necessarily left many works unnoticed . The number pro- duced has increased enormously within ...
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... missionaries . CANTONESE . For learning the language , Dyer Ball's Canton- ese Made Easy ; The Cantonese Made Easy Vocabulary , How to Speak Cantonese , Readings in Cantonese Colloquial , by the same author . The two varieties of ...
... missionaries . CANTONESE . For learning the language , Dyer Ball's Canton- ese Made Easy ; The Cantonese Made Easy Vocabulary , How to Speak Cantonese , Readings in Cantonese Colloquial , by the same author . The two varieties of ...
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