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The Chinese as They Are, Their Moral and Social Character, Manners, Customs, Language: With Remarks on Their Arts and Sciences, Their Medical Skill, the Extent of Missionary Enterprise, &C.; Containing Also, Illustrative and Corroborative Notes, Additiona - Softcover
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Excerpt from The Chinese as They Are: Their Moral and Social Character, Manners, Customs, Language; With Remarks on Their Arts and Sciences, Medical Skill, the Extent of Missionary Enterprise, Etc;; Containing Also, Illustrative and Corroborative Notes, Additional Chapters on the Ancient And China has long presented a most interesting field for inquiry and research, second to no other country on the globe. Recent event have contributed to invest it with an additional interest, and have awakened a spirit of inquiry which it is the object of this work, in a measure, to gratify. Owing to many circumstances the remoteness of the country, the jealous character of the people our knowledge of this peculiar and interesting empire has hitherto been extremely limited. Most of the accounts that have reached us, from the time of Marco Polo to the present, have been extremely imperfect and unsatisfactory. Those of the Catholic Jesuits, who in their world-wide enthusiasm were the first to penetrate into the unknown regions of Cathay, though in many respects valuable and interesting, were not free from error and exaggeration. The hurried works of persons connected with the various embassies from European powers were necessarily deficient, not to say, in many points, incorrect; while those emanating from residents in the commercial ports of Canton and Macao, where the character of the Chinese had materially deteriorated, were fruitful in error. Nor have adventurers been wanting, dealing largely in absurdities, whose accounts, well suited to the popular taste for the wonderful and extravagant, have gained very general credence. Hence it is not at all surprising that ignorance and misconception in relation to China, its people, its government and religion, should have been so general. Recent investigations, nevertheless, more especially on the part of the Protestant missionaries, have thrown a flood of light upon the actual state and condition of the country, and corrected many of th
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2024
- ISBN 10 1330311485
- ISBN 13 9781330311486
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages120
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