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Herald. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Herald undated edition. Pages clean and bright, binding coming away from back board, minor shelf wear to cover, no dust jacket.
Lights and Shadows of Chinese Life by John Macgowan - 1909
by John Macgowan
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Lights and Shadows of Chinese Life
by John Macgowan
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Shanghai: North China Daily News & Herald Ltd, 1909. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Text in English. Original cloth binding. Spine head, foot slightly rubbed. Cover outside corners slightly bumped. A few stains on front covers. Back cover bottom edge slightly faded. Pencil notes on back of front and back endpapers. Signature by previous owner on back of front cover. Hinges cracked especially back hinge but holding. A photographic plate detached from the binding between page 222 and page 223 showing "the stern of the boat" and "a recognised anchorage". Otherwise in very good condition. "China is a great country and is inhabited by a great people, and in the coming years, under the influence of forces that have uplifted the nations of the West, there will be, I believe, as many astounding surprises in all departments of life and thought as have been witnessed in them. To have been permitted to lift but a corner of the veil of mystery that has shrouded this people from those of other lands is an honour that is amply sufficient for me" (preface). Illustrated with 27 photographic plates, this uncommon work presents China social life and cultures during the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China from a western scholar point of view. Discusses topics such as "the land and its law", "how the empire is governed", "the Chinese military system literary degrees", "mountain temples", "punishments", "doctors and doctoring", "money and money lending", "farmers and farming", "peeps into Chinese life", and others. John Macgowan(1835-1922), Belfast-born missionary in China with the London Missionary Society, founder of the foot emancipation Society which fought the custom of foot binding. He came to China in 1860 and did missionary work in Shanghai and Xiamen. He was proficient in Chinese studies. He published a number of books including "Christ or confucius, which?", "pictures of Southern China", "imperial history of China", "sidelights on Chinese Life", "English and Chinese dictionary of the Amoy dialect". Size: 5.9X8.6X1.6 inches 308 pages.
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- Edition 1st Edition 1st Printing
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- Publisher North China Daily News & Herald Ltd
- Place of Publication Shanghai
- Date Published 1909
- Pages 308
- Keywords Chinese National characteristics,China Social life and customs 1644-1912,chiniese Manners and customs. General, Asian, Catalogues
- Size 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall
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Lights and Shadows of Chinese LIfe
by John Macgowan
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Lights and Shadows of Chinese Life.
by MACGOWAN, John
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Shanghai: North China Daily News & Herald Ltd,, 1909. First edition, first printing, in the scarce green cloth variant binding, of this introduction to Chinese life by one of the founders of the Heavenly Foot Society, the first organization formed to oppose foot-binding. The author (1835-1922), a British missionary and a member of the London Missionary Society, first travelled to China in 1860 and spent the next 50 years travelling and living in the country. He wrote multiple works based on these experiences, and also published a dictionary of the Amoy dialect. Copies of Lights and Shadows were also bound in tan cloth. While there is no discernible priority between the two variants, copies in tan cloth are the more common in commerce. Octavo. Original green diagonal-grained cloth, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered and decorated in yellow and black. Half-tone photographic frontispiece, 20 similar plates in text. Cloth lightly soiled and rubbed, rear inner hinge just starting but still…
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