China and the Chinese

by Herbert Allen Giles Narrated by Thomas Collins

Overview

If the Chinese people were to file one by one past a given point, the interesting procession would never come to an end. Before the last man of those living to-day had gone by, another and a new generation would have grown up, and so on for ever and ever. The importance, as a factor in the sum of human affairs, of this vast nation,-of its language, of its literature, of its religions, of its history, of its manners and customs,-goes therefore without saying. Yet a serious attention to China and her affairs is of very recent growth. Twenty-five years ago there was but one professor of Chinese in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and even that one spent his time more in adorning his profession than in imparting his knowledge to classes of eager students.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160226859
Publisher:	Audioliterature
Publication date:	02/28/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

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