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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    October 2010
    June 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511709159
    9781108013819
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709159
    Dimensions:
    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.46kg, 360 Pages
    • Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, Regional Geography
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, Regional Geography
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    First published in 1889, Land of the Dragon provides a lively account of William Spencer Percival's daily life as a British civil servant working in Shanghai at the end of the nineteenth century. An author of several travel books such as Twenty Years in the Far East (1905), Percival takes his 'sympathetic' British friends' prejudices about China as pretext to give a thorough account of his life in the East. He delights in relating his boating and hunting excursions in the Chinese countryside, and his adventures – camping out, shooting pigs, and towing through rapids – are packed with often extraordinary anecdotes about the land, the Chinese people, and other foreigners, including American and Roman Catholic missionaries. Part travel diary, part anthropological study, this book gives a valuable insight into the relationship between the British and the people of Qing dynasty China.

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