The Civilization of China by Herbert Allen Giles

The Civilization of China by Herbert Allen Giles

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is a very common thing now-a-days to meet people who are going to China, which can be reached by the Siberian railway in fourteen or fifteen days. This brings us at once to the question - What is meant by the term China? Taken in its widest sense, the term includes Mongolia, Manchuria, Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, and the Eighteen Provinces, the whole being equivalent to an area of some five million square miles, that is, considerably more than twice the size of the United States of America. But for a study of manners and customs and modes of thought of the Chinese people, we must confine ourselves to that portion of the whole which is known to the Chinese as the Eighteen Provinces, and to us as China Proper. This portion of the empire occupies not quite two-fifths of the whole, covering an area of somewhat more than a million and a half square miles. Its chief landmarks may be roughly stated as Peking, the capital, in the north; Canton, the great commercial centre, in the south; Shanghai, on the east; and the Tibetan frontier on the west.

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ISBN 13	9781604441062
ISBN 10	1604441062
Title	The Civilization of China
Author	Herbert Allen Giles
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Year published	2010-01-17
Number of pages	160
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