With the Empress Dowager of China
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: May 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781432616588
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography : General; Social Science / General; General; Social Science; Sociology
First sentence: THE day of my first Audience at the Chinese Court, August 5th, we were up betimes at the American Legation, for it takes full three hours to drive out to the Summer Palace from Peking; and punctuality is the etiquette of Oriental as well as of Occidental potentates.