Heaven is High and the Emperor Far Away
Subtitle: Merchants and Mandarins in Old Canton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780195927443
First sentence: One fine autumn day in Canton in 1983, a group of labourers were steadily digging on the site of an old restaurant in preparation for building the new China Hotel.
Description: Through a richly illustrated text, this book recounts the vivid history of Canton, which in its heyday was the center of the China Trade and was for centuries the wonder of the Far East.