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  • Lion and Dragon in Northern China

    by Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston ...
    Less than a dozen years have passed since the guns of British warships first saluted the flag of their country at the Chinese port of Weihaiwei, yet it is nearly a century since the white ensign was seen there for the first time. In the summer of 1816 His Britannic Majesty's frigate Alceste, accompanied by the sloop Lyra, bound for the still mysterious and unsurveyed coasts of Korea and the Luchu ... Read more

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  • From Peking to Mandalay: A Journey from North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch'uan and Yunnan

    by Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston ...
    The journey of which an account is given in the following pages was not undertaken in the special interests of geographical or other science nor in the service of any Government. My chief object was to gratify a long-felt desire to visit those portions of the Chinese Empire which are least known to Europeans, and to acquire some knowledge of the various tribes subject to China that inhabit the ... Read more

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  • Confucianism and Modern China

    by Reginald Fleming Johnston ...
    In these lectures Johnston endeavours to justify the faith that is in him and to explain the grounds on which he bases his belief that Confucianism is still a living force among the Chinese people and has a message of great value for the China of the present and future and provide and answer to the question 'What is Confucianism?'If we wish to form an adequate idea of Confucianism we must make an ... Read more

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  • China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzŭ Hsi

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    The family of Yehonala, one of the oldest of the Manchu clans, traces its descent in direct line to Prince Yangkunu, whose daughter married (in 1588) Nurhachu, the real founder of Manchu rule in China and the first direct ancestor of the Ta Ching Emperors. Yangkunu was killed at Mukden in 1583, in one of his raids upon the territories which still owed allegiance to the degenerate Chinese sovereign ... Read more

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  • The Civilization of China

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    The aim of this work is to suggest a rough outline of Chinese civilization from the earliest times down to the present period of rapid and startling transition. ... Read more

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  • The Life, Labours and Doctrines of Confucius (Unabridged)

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    This carefully crafted ebook: “The Life, Labours and Doctrines of Confucius (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The original work was published in 1897.The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other ... Read more

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  • The Wisdom of Confucius - 6 books in One Edition

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  • Manners and Customs of the Japanese in Nineteenth Century

    From the Accounts of Dutch Residents in Japan and from the German Work of Dr. Philipp Franz von Siebold

    by Philipp Franz von Siebold Ph.D. ...
    Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century is a delightful account of the Japanese of Tokugawa Japan.This unique handbook of Japanese manners, customs, history, and singular happenings was published in New York in 1841. Based on the firsthand observations of Dr. Philipp Franz von Siebold of the Dutch trading port Deshima in the years 1823-29, as well as on Spanish, Portuguese, ... Read more

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  • Chinese Characteristics

    by Smith Arthur H. ...
    Arthur Smith was one of the top Sinologists of the late 19th century and early 20th century, and Chinese Characteristics is the book which best synthesizes his opinions on Chinese culture and society. He spent more than 50 years in China as a missionary and his opinions range from insightful and profound to inappropriate and ridiculous, but even the sections of the book that today seem to reflect ... Read more

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  • The Crest-Wave of Evolution

    A Course of Lectures in History, Given in the Raja-Yoga College, 1918-1919

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    This fascinating series of lectures looks at human history not through the typical lens of conflict and struggles for political power, but as a gradual process of collective spiritual growth and development that is unfolding over the course of thousands of years. An enlightening read for anyone interested in New Thought and theosophy. ... Read more

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  • Select Chinese Folk-Lore and Fairy Tales

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    One day in the early dawn, a distinguished mandarin was leaving the temple of the City God. It was his duty to visit this temple on the first and fifteenth of the moon, whilst the city was still asleep, to offer incense and adoration to the stern-looking figure enshrined within. This mandarin was Shih-Kung, and a juster or more upright official did not exist in all the fair provinces of the Empire ... Read more

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