China under the Search-light
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: December 14, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781402193385
Subjects: Asia,History,history of Asia,China,history of China,description of China,civilization of China,William Arthur Cornaby; History / Asia; History / Far East
First sentence: IN his Study of Sociology Herbert Spencer tells a tale of a Frenchman "who, having been three weeks in England, proposed to write a book on English characteristics, who after three months found that he was not quite ready, and who, after three years, concluded that he knew nothing about it."