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The Civilization of China Paperback - 2004
by Giles, Herbert Allen
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- Title The Civilization of China
- Author Giles, Herbert Allen
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 184
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher 1st World Library - Literary Society
- Date 2004-12-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1595406514.G
- ISBN 9781595406514 / 1595406514
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.42 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.07 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Dewey Decimal Code 951
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Summary
From the book: It is a very common thing now-a-days to meet people who are going to "China," which can be reached by the Siberian railway in fourteen or fifteen days. This brings us at once to the question - What is meant by the term China? Taken in its widest sense, the term includes Mongolia, Manchuria, Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, and the Eighteen Provinces, the whole being equivalent to an area of some five million square miles, that is, considerably more than twice the size of the United States of America. But for a study of manners and customs and modes of thought of the Chinese people, we must confine ourselves to that portion of the whole which is known to the Chinese as the "Eighteen Provinces," and to us as China Proper. This portion of the empire occupies not quite two-fifths of the whole, covering an area of somewhat more than a million and a half square miles. Its chief landmarks may be roughly stated as Peking, the capital, in the north; Canton, the great commercial centre, in the south; Shanghai, on the east; and the Tibetan frontier on the west.
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IT is a very common thing now-a-days to meet people who are going to "China," which can be reached by the Siberian railway in fourteen or fifteen days.