The gateway to China :Pictures of Shanghai

IS Shanghai the same place it was six or seven years ago, when this book was written? In one sense, it is; yet in a hundred ways it is a different city. The opening of Shanghai as a treaty port is not a matter of ancient history, since it is not so very long ago that the first foreign woman resident died. But how rapid and marvellous have been the changes, especially during the past decade! We …

Riding the iron rooster by train through China

Riding the Iron Rooster is a travel book by Paul Theroux primarily about his travels through China in the 1980s. One of his aims was to disprove the Chinese proverb, You can always deceive foreigners". It won the 1989 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award."

Chinas’s sorrow :Journeys around the yellow river

PROLOGUE : THE VALLEYS OF the Yellow River, said the French explorer and writer Pierre Teilhard de Chardın in 1923, struck him as 'austere and desolate regions in which the mind, as well as the body, is exposed defenceless to all the great winds of the earth. He went on: 'These immense expanses, grey and flat, out of all proportion to our plains of western Europe, and these completely bare and…

China :A great people a great destiny

I have just visited China.rnI went with much pleasure and even keener interest, a pleasure and interest which increased the longer I stayed there.rnrnIt is only today that the peoples of the whole world, and of Africa in particular, are really beginning to form a correct idea of this great country and great people China and the Chinese.rnrnPreviously the artificial barriers set up by colonialis…

An Australian in China

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0 19 583903 X

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xv, 299 pages

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915.03 Mor a

Prasasti Indonesia: selected inscriptions from the 7th to the 9th century A.D

Ance 04/10/24

Area handbook for Japan

The present handbook attempts to furnish in compact form an objective description of the social, political, and economic aspects of Japan to mid-1973.

Amsterdam

Bukankah telah sering orang mentjoba untuk membandingkan Amsterdam dengan kota2 lain didunia? Misalnja dengan kota kepala pemerintah Itali dahulu, Venetia, karena parit2-nja jang indah dan dengan Paris ibu kota Perantjis karena suasananja. Tetapi ibu kota negeri Belanda itu tidak dapat dibandingkan dengan kota jang manapun didunia. Amsterdam, jang dalam tahun 1975 akan merajakan hari ulang tahu…

The making of the Romanian people and language

The growth of the Romanian people in the Carpatho- Danubian area and its continuity in this area is a process similar to the growth and continuity of the other Romance European peoples: the French, Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese. With all these peoples we see first a basic ethnic element: the Gauls in France, the Celtiberians in Spain and and Portugal, the Gauls in the north and the Etrusca…

Western impressions of nature and landscape in Southeast Asia

This book is based substantially on my doctoral dissertation (The Western Cognition of Nature and Landscape in South- east Asia) submitted to the Geography Department, Uni- versity of California, Berkeley in June 1982. I owe a depth of gratitude to the many people that have made both the dissertation and book possible.