George Fleming, Fleming George

Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A monument of Victorian travel literature and a source for understanding nineteenth-century English perceptions of China and Chinese culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 974g
• ISBN-13: 9781108014267
• ISBN-10: 1108014267
• Artikelnr.: 29048550

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Summer at Tien-tsin
2. Fugitive Sinologues
3. Story of the General Choo
4. Long bills
5. The hundred-spirited bird
6. [No chapter with this number]
7. Village of Tchung-sah-kow
8. The town of Fung-tai
9. Cultivation of indigo
10. An uncivil and extortionate landlord
11. The town of lanchow
12. Superstitious fancies
13. A miserable morning
14. Old-fashioned town
15. Early rising in Chinese inns
16. Bird slaughtering
17. The spy system
18. History of the Great Wall of China
19. Accommodation gratis
20. Pastoral life
21. Sunday morning
22. Rabid curiosity
23. Early hours
24. Pastoral country
25. A welcome halt
26. Our new attendants
27. Elevation of the land
28. History of Moukden
29. A brief narrative of a journey beyond Peking, to the coal-mines
Index.