Letters from the Far East
By: by Sir Charles Eliot.
Publisher: E. Arnold
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Chinese literature; Japanese literature; East Asia -- Description and travel
Notes: "The letters here republished consist of contributions written for the Westminster gazette during a brief visit to China and Japan in the summer and autumn of 1906, together with some additions."--Introd.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The religious East.; title: Cochin China.; title: Canton.; title: Towns and roads.; title: On the Yangtse.; title: Hankow to Peking.; title: Peking.; title: Education and the army.; title: Chinese administration and its prospects.; title: Chinese literature.; title: In a Japanese train.; title: Far Eastern characteristics.; title: Japanese literature.; title: Nikko.; title: Ise.; title: Kamakura and Misaki.