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Letters From China and Japan (Classic Reprint)

Author : Lilias Dunlop Swainson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267713202
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Letters From China and Japan (Classic Reprint) written by Lilias Dunlop Swainson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters From China and Japan Here we are, safely across the channel, and feeling very much the better for having slept on a very downy couch, till nearly eleven o'clock this morning! By the time we got to Folkestone, it became evident that we were likely to have rather a toss, and so we had - more of a side jumble than anything else, but quite enough to disturb the equilibrium of most of our fellow victims. I sat on deck most of the time, under a mountain of plaids to keep me warm, but when these failed to do so any longer, I descended to the ladies' cabin, which I found completely occupied by a crowd of wretched mortals, in 'every attitude of woe. I need not describe further the charms of the passage to Boulogne, they being only too pain fully familiar to you. The only excitement during the journey to Paris, was the very common one of keys declining to appear when wanted. I dived into my travelling bag with perfect assurance Of finding them there, but alas l they were not to be found. 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.

ROUND THE WORLD

Author : William Perry Fogg
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333500696
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book ROUND THE WORLD written by William Perry Fogg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Round the World: Letters From Japan, China, India, and Egypt I was not ordered abroad by the doctors, but started in perfect health, which I retained through all the vicissitudes of climate, and was so fortunate as not to meet with any serious mishap to mar the pleasure of the journey. Only once, during that eventful night of the typhoon on the Chinese coast, did I question my prudence in being there, without the excuse of ill-health or busi ness. My motive was not merely the pursuit of pleasure, but the desire to gratify a long-cherished passion to see once in my lifetime the strange and curious nations of the Orient, books of travel among whom have always had for me a strange fascination. In these sketches I have confined my descriptions, in a great measure, to what passed under my own observation; and have endeavored to paint the curious and novel scenes in Japan, China, and India, as they appeared to a fresh traveler, without any attempt at fine writing, or high- own description. The unexpected courtesy and kindness everywhere met from both foreigners and natives, and the many chance acquaintances which have ripened into friendships that will endure for a lifetime, are among the pleasantest souvenirs of my journey. 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."

Letters From the Far East

Author : Frederica A. Walcott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267784769
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Letters From the Far East written by Frederica A. Walcott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters From the Far East: Notes of a Visit to China, Korea and Japan, 1915-1916 Finland and her Harvard passengers, owing to bad Slides in the Culebra Cut which held her up for over four days. One evening we had quite an unexpected glimpseof the Far East in the form Of a fete in Chinatown. The streets Of the quarter, crowded with Orientals, were brightly lighted and hung with gay ﬂags and banners. The little Chinese girls were adorable with their Shiny braids and daintily colored coats and trousers. The kiddies Of about eight or nine were evidently supposed to be selling confetti to visitors but as a matter Of fact they were Spending most Of their time, boylike, in hurling their wares at the passers-by, though this entailed much ardu ous labor in picking up the scattered bits Of paper and replacing them in the bags in which they were Offered for sale. Keen enjoyment was none the less apparent. 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.

Letters Far East (Classic Reprint)

Author : Sir Charles Eliot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483100404
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Letters Far East (Classic Reprint) written by Sir Charles Eliot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters Far East The letters here republished consist of contributions written for the Westminster Gazette during a brief visit to China and Japan in the summer and autumn of 1906, together with some additions. I had travelled before in Kashgaria and the frontier pro vinces of China, reaching them by crossing Asia, but this was my first visit to the coast and the better known provinces of the empire. The main object of my journey was to obtain some practical know ledge of the languages and creeds of the Far East, and, in particular, to study the curious development which Buddhism has undergone in those countries for it is difficult to form a correct and comprehensive idea of the part which this religion has played in the world by the mere study of Sanskrit and Pali litera ture. I trust that I may some day be able to publish the result of these and other investigations in a con nected form. 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.

Chinese Letters

Author : Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Argens
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332706969
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Letters written by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Argens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chinese Letters: Being a Philosophical, Historical, and Critical Correspondence Between a Chinese Traveller at Paris, and His Countrymen in China, Muscovy, Persia and Japan Made of this Material Principle eftablifh'd by the m3dem Do&ors, and call'd Tac-kz', of which there's no Token in the five Canonical Books nor in the four of Confucius and Meuciur. This Tar-k2, accor ding to them, isa fecret and occult Virtue; which cannot be clearly explain'd; 'tis a Being feparate from the Imperfections of Matter, which being dieufed thro' this vaii Univerfe, conneets all its Parts, maintains them in their Correfpondence, pre ferves themlin Harmony, gives them Life and Form;, 'tis, in niort, of all Beings the B263 and Foundation. 'tis that which makes all the Altera tions in them, and regulates their Order and Mo tion, neverthelefs this occult Virtue has ho Intel ligence, but is blind in its moft regular Operation, and conducts the Whole with {'tupen'dous Wifdom, Without knowing that it conducts any thin Whats Syftem is here, Dear sieou-to eou and how contrary is it, in my Opinion, to the laine; Notions! How, is it pofiible for this blind atter to' erform what nece 'arily requires the mof't perfeel; telligencep How can it govern the Univerfe, if it does nor know itfelf P How can intelli ent Beings, fuch as Men'are, ow from a material rinciple, if they have not received their: Qualities from this Primum Mobile To what ell'e are they oblig'd for it? Is it to Matter 9' This is as blind as tar-h, and even more imperfect. Is it.toch-ance? How comes it then, that we don'tyfee intelli ent Trees and Stones, and that Chance only grants erception to or anis'd Matter, fuch as that which forms hu-3 man odies? Is it this, Organifation which is the. 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."

Letters From the Far East

Author : De Lancey Floyd-Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332226696
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Letters From the Far East written by De Lancey Floyd-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters From the Far East: Being Impressions of a Tour Around the World, by Way of England, India, China, and Japan During 1885-86 The letters in this volume were written in the course of a tour around the world, in 1885-6, and appeared in journals of the time. They are presented now in book form, in the hope that they may interest friends and fellow travellers. The only claim made for them is, that they give a plain narrative of the journey, and some details concerning the places of note which I visited. 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.

China and Japan (Classic Reprint)

Author : Emma P. K. Trawick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267412778
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book China and Japan (Classic Reprint) written by Emma P. K. Trawick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from China and Japan On November 6, 1900, Miss Emma Penton Kendrick, of Louisville, Kentucky, was married to Doctor John D. Trawick, of Nashville, Tennessee. They left immediately for San Francisco, from which place they sailed for their new home in China. Doctor Trawick is an associate surgeon in the Methodist Hospital at Soochow. Her letters from this far-off Eastern land were so very inter esting that many friends requested that they be given to the public, and some of them were accordingly published in a leading newspaper of Louisville, her native city. Many complimentary things were said of them, and many requests were made that they be put in a more permanent form. Some few of these are printed as an appendix to this book.' It is in response to these requests that this little volume appears. 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.

Letters from China & Japan

Author : Lilias Dunlop Findlay Swainson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385381231
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Letters from China & Japan written by Lilias Dunlop Findlay Swainson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Letters from China and Japan

Author : L. D. S.
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385221692
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Letters from China and Japan written by L. D. S. and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Letters from China and Japan

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789356718562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Letters from China and Japan written by John Dewey and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from China and Japan has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Letters from China & Japan, by L. D. S

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ISBN 13 : 9780371847596
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Letters from China & Japan, by L. D. S written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Touch-and-Go Letters From the Real Japan

Author : Harman Black
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484626910
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Touch-and-Go Letters From the Real Japan written by Harman Black and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Touch-and-Go Letters From the Real Japan: Being Volume One of Touch-and-Go Letters From 'Round the World It seems very hard to realize that my dream of going to the Orient is about to come true. I have been thinking all day about the general belief that the East is the land of ﬂowers and romance. I am sure that there are prettier ﬂowers in the gardens of Europe than I shall ever see in Japan and China, and surely the history of Europe is replete with everything romantic, so I have concluded that the lure of the East is not in its romanticism but its mystery, its differentness, and its unaccountability from our Western standpoint. It seems very queer to go West in order to reach the East; but even in San Francisco, you get a little of the atmosphere of the Orient in its China town and the universal employment of Chinese laborers and servants here. The good Pacific Mail ship Siberia is big enough to be comfortable, and the fare is almost as good as the Mauretania. There are about 140 on board, and a very agreeable list. Army officers, and engineers, the inevitable English and Scotch tourist, and the lady from Rochester, New York, who loves to pronounce her morning ablution baaath. I was put at the Captain's table, as I had a letter to him. The table, is full of pink roses, and in the centre is a quaint little Japanese pine tree that looks like part of the decoration of a doll's house and grounds. A Chinese steward stands behind every plate, noiseless and competent, but wholly impervious to the English language. They waste no words, such as Sir or very well, but follow the scriptural injunction as to yea, yea, and nay, nay. They dress in pajama-looking suits, very thinfor this season of the Spring, and when you look around you always imagine a woman is standing there. Tonight at dinner, they have changed from the blue ratine effects to pure white, and they look and move around like a lot of Oriental ghosts. It seems impossible for them to use an r. If they tried to say rats it would come out lats. 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.

Letters from China & Japan

Author : Lilias Dunlop Swainson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Letters from China & Japan written by Lilias Dunlop Swainson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters From the Orient to Her Daughters at Home (Classic Reprint)

Author : Mrs. A. W. Wilson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483117693
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Letters From the Orient to Her Daughters at Home (Classic Reprint) written by Mrs. A. W. Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters From the Orient to Her Daughters at Home Mrs. Wilson looked upon Japan, China, India, and other lands with a woman's eye and with a woman's sympathetic heart. Being in full accord with her husband in his labor of love, she stood by his side as he surveyed the fields, made her own observations, noted some facts which might not have arrested the Bishop's attention, and, while the inspiration was fresh upon her, recorded what she saw, felt. And longed for, in these familiar let ters addressed to her children. 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.

Letters From China And Japan

Author : John Dewey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782382742402
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Letters From China And Japan written by John Dewey and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters From China And Japan By John DeweyWell, if you want to see one mammoth, muddy masquerade just see Tokyo to-day. I am so amused all the time that if I were to do just as I feel, I should sit down or stand up and call out, as it were, from the housetops to every one in the world to come and see the show. If it were not for the cut of them I should think that all the cast-off clothing had been misdirected and had gone to Japan instead of Belgium. But they are mostly as queer in cut as they are in material. Imagine rummaging your attic for the colors and patterns of past days and then gathering up kimonos of all the different colors and patterns and sizes and with it all a lot of men's hats that are like nothing you ever saw, and very muddy streets, and there you have it. The 'ricksha men have their legs fitted with tight trousers and puttees to end them, and they are graceful. They run all day, through the mud and snow and wet in these things made of cotton cloth that are neither stockings nor shoes but both, and they stand about or sit on steps and wait, and yet they get through the day alive. I am distracted between the desire to ride in the baby cart and the fear of the language, mixed with the greater fear of the pain of being drawn by a fellow-being. They are a lithe set of little men and look as if they had steel springs to make them go when you look at their course. Still I have been only in autos, of which there are not many here.I get tired with the excitement of the constant amusement. This morning a man came out of a curio shop. Bow. "Exguse me, madame, is this not Mrs. Daway? I knew you because I saw your picture in the paper. Will you not come in and look at our many curios? I shall have the pleasure of bringing them to your hotel. What is the number of your room, madame?" Bow. "No, please do not bring them to my room, for I am always out. I will come in and see them sometime." "Thank you, madame, please do so, madame, we have many fine curios." Bow. "Goodmorning, madame." The looks of the streets are like the clothes, just left over from the past ages. Of course Tokyo is the modern city of Japan, and we shall watch out for the ancient ones when it comes their turn. I wish I could give you an idea of the looks of the poor. The children up to the age of about thirteen appear never to wipe their noses. Combine this effect (more effect than in Italy) with several kimonos, one on top of the other, made of cotton and wool of bright colors and flowered, with a queer brown checked one on top this wadded and much too big, therefore hitched up round the waist. Swung in this outside one a baby is carried on the back, the little baby head with black bangs or still fuzzy scalp sticking out, nose never yet touched by a handkerchief, wearer of the baby with a nose in the same condition if at a tender age-I scream inside of me as I go about, and it is more exciting than any play ever. We are as much curiosities to them as they are to us, though we live where the most foreigners go. Now on top of it all we can no more make a car driver understand where we want to go than if we were monkeys.

Letters from the Far East

Author : Charles Eliot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Afterlives of Letters

Author : Satoru Hashimoto
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231558953
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Afterlives of Letters written by Satoru Hashimoto and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized cultural norms, they ventured to create new literature for the new era. Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the origins of modern literature in a transregional context, drawing on Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language texts in both classical and vernacular forms. He argues that modern literature came into being in East Asia through writerly attempts at reconstructing the present’s historical relationship to the past across the cultural transformations caused by modernization. Hashimoto examines writers’ anachronistic engagement with past cultures deemed obsolete or antithetical to new systems of values, showing that this transnational process was integral to the emergence of modern literature. A groundbreaking cross-cultural excavation of the origins of modern literature in East Asia featuring remarkable linguistic scope, Afterlives of Letters bridges Asian studies and comparative literature and delivers a remapping of world literature.