Letters from a Chinese official
Subtitle: being an eastern view of western civilization
Edition: American ed.
Publisher: Doubleday, Page
Published: 1922
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Civilization
Other titles: Letters from John Chinaman.
Description: National book critic John Freeman pulls together his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) of the very best novelists of our time, including such international stars as Doris Lessing, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, and Mo Yan, to established American lions such as Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, and David Foster Wallace, to the new guard of Edwidge Danticat, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, and more.
Notes: First issued in the Saturday review.

Published by R.B. Johnson, London, in 1901, under title: Letters from John Chinaman.

"Written originally for the English, they touch upon specifically English institutions."

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