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New, annotated edition of 1912 classic!
For nearly 300 years, from 1644 to 1911, the Manchu barbarians from beyond the Great Wall ruled China.
Because few Westerners knew China and the Manchus as well as the author, a British consular official in China and professor at Cambridge University, this remains the classic account of the Manchus' bareback seizure of power, their centuries of fractious rule, and their descent into oblivion in silken slippers.
Zipped .pdf file, with illustrations and footnotes. 66 pp.
Price: US$5.00
American astronomer Percival Lowell travelled for ten years throughout the Far East as a travel writer and a foreign secretary. This experience, combined with a love for literature, led to several books regarding the Far East, most notably The Soul of the Far East (1888), which later inspired Lafcadio Hearn to move to Japan.
Price: US$5.00
Lionel Giles' fully annotated translation of the world's first military treatise, with preface and two illustrations. This Chinese classic is still studied by armed forces around the world.
Price: US$5.00
Professor Headland's classic look at childhood in early 20th-century China. A unique catalog of their games, nursery rhymes, toys, entertainment, juggling, and stories.
Price: US$5.00
A contemporary explanation of China's attempted reforms in response to Western colonialism, at the turbulent end of the Ch'ing (i.e., Manchu) Dynasty (1644-1912), based on information contributed by the author's wife, who was the personal physician of relatives of the Empress Dowager.
Price: US$5.00
Always wondered what a Chinese diplomat thought about 1914 America, its people, and their customs? Well, wonder no more after reading this classic work, which is in turns all too spot on and slightly awry.
Price: US$5.00
This collection of little-known essays by America's best-loved conservationist and nature writer spans twenty-nine years of John Muir's travels in 19th-century California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, as well as among the Indians resident therein. Well written, informative, and at times thrilling—as when Muir spends a night atop storm-battered Mount Shasta—these essays portray a vanished but picturesque period in the American West.
Zipped .pdf file with illustrations and footnotes.
Price: US$5.00
"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks...."
In this classic nature essay published in the June 1862 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, American naturalist Henry David Thoreau eloquently advocates the soul-cleansing benefits of a walk in the woods.
Zipped .pdf file with illustrations.
Price: US$5.00
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