The Orient Explorer Collection - Softcover

Carl, Katharine A.; Gaunt, Mary; Alsop, Gulielma F.; Fielde, Adele M.; Bridgman, Eliza J. Gillett; Little, Archibald; Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah; Guangxi Normal Press

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9629376520 ISBN 13: 9789629376529

Publisher: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2024

Synopsis

For readers interested in early China depicted by women travellers in early 20th century. The boxset focuses on the theme "Women Writers" and features seven books written by women from various walks of life, including:

• With the Empress Dowager - by Katharine A. Carl, 1905
• A Woman in China - by Mary Gaunt, 1914
• My Chinese Days - by Gulielma F. Alsop, 1918
• Pagoda Shadows: Studies from Life in China - by Adele M. Fielde, 1885
• Daughters of China: Sketches of Domestic Life in the Celestial Empire - by Eliza J. Gillett Bridgman, 1953
• Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them - by Mrs. Archibald Little, 1899
• China: The Long-Lived Empire - by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, 1900

Each volume of the collection is to reignite interest and also to allow readers to explore how these books relate to the region today.

About this title

About the Author

Katharine A. Carl - American portrait artist.

Mary Gaunt - Australian writer.

Gulielma F. Alsop - American medical missionary.

Adele M. Fielde - American missionary and scientist.

Eliza J. Gillett Bridgman - American missionary and educator.

Archibald Little - British writer and women's rights activist.

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore - American writer and photographer.

Edition details

• Publisher: City University of Hong Kong Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9629376520
• ISBN 13: 9789629376529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 3016