Author: SMITH, ARTHUR HENDERSON:
Title: Chinese Characteristics. Enlarged and Revised Edition with Marginal and New Illustrations. London & Edinburgh, Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, no date (1905 ?).
Description: . Pp. 342. With frontispiece, 18 fullpage plates and many illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, top of spine chipped with small loss. First edition was published at Shanghai in 1890 by Smith, an American missionary who lived for 54 years in China. This work became extremely popular among missionaries and other Westerners. Cf Cordier 1840 (fifth revised edition 1905).

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