A Cycle Of Cathay Or China South And North

Author : W. A. P. Martin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330369128
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book A Cycle of Cathay; Or China, South and North written by W. A. P. Martin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Cycle of Cathay; Or China, South and North: With Personal Reminiscences From the prelude to China's first war with England to the present date is, roughly speaking, about sixty years - the length of a Chinese cycle, though for all I know Tennyson may have thought of it as a thousand years. To this period the following pages principally relate. During three fourths of it I was domiciled in China, dividing my life between South and North, and adding to the experiences of a missionary those of an employee of the Chinese government. For two years I served my own country at a critical epoch, when the treaties were negotiated which led to the opening of Peking. My position in a college closely connected with the Board of Foreign Affairs gave me exceptional opportunities for observing the course of diplomacy in the Chinese capital for nearly thirty years. Yet my object is not so much to write a history of events as to exhibit the Chinese as I have seen them, in their social and political life. To some the personal element will add interest; to all, I would fain hope, it will add confidence. Should the volume fall into the hands of any of my old students, they will, I trust, find in it the same sympathetic appreciation of their country and the same candor of criticism which, I am sure, they have learned to expect. 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.