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Author: (Australian) Morley Callaway
Translator: Zhang Hao
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Publish Date: 1998-01-01
Features: Morley Callaway, who served as a correspondent for The Times in China and a political advisor to Yuan Shikai, described his journey from Shanghai along the Yangtze River into Sichuan, Yunnan, and Myanmar, documenting the social, economic, cultural, and scenic aspects of late Qing China. The book covers not only the bureaucratic class but also the common people, as well as missionaries and merchants in China. It also mentions emerging forces such as the Self-Strengthening Movement figure Zhang Zhidong. The author vividly portrays the social landscape of late Qing China before the major societal transformations.