Open China: A Foreigner in the Qing Dynasty

Author: Nick Le Fevre
Translator: Qian Lin, Cai Hongning
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: In this rich and engaging book, Nick Le Fevre, a Frenchman, observes China a century ago from the fresh perspective of an outsider. Through the eyes of foreigners, everything in China at that time seemed so new and unimaginable—long braids, bound feet, arched gateways, one-wheeled carts, bandits, the Four Books and Five Classics, porcelain. With a light and entertaining tone, the author vividly presents to the world the fascinating and diverse life of an ancient nation.