The face of China : $b Travels in east, north, central and western China

· 1939

TRAVELS IN EAST, NORTH, CENTRAL AND WESTERN CHINA ¶ WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NEW SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, MISSIONS, AND THE OLD RELIGIOUS SACRED PLACES OF CONFUCIANISM, BUDDHISM, AND TAOISM THE WHOLE WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY E. G. KEMP, F.R.S.G.S. Every intelligent person that I have met whose good fairy has led him to the Celestial Empire has fallen under the spell of that marvellous people and marvellous land. I am fired with the ambition to cast that spell even on those who have never been there, by showing them as accurately and vividly as I can, with pen and brush, what the face of China actually is.…

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