Script of Nautical Adventures: A Collection of Tales

Author: Zhang Deli
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Publishing Date: 1997-05-01
Features: The author was a Han military official of the Qian Dynasty's Xanhuang Banner, serving as a long-term translator for foreign diplomatic missions and holding positions such as counselor at embassies in the UK, Italy, France, Belgium, and Japan. This book, written in a diary format, records the author's personal experiences during his missions to Europe and Asia from 1866 to 1900. It contains extremely rich materials, such as the account of the Paris Commune uprising, which is a rare and valuable historical source in Chinese books. The original manuscript was preserved in the Beijing Library and consists of seventy-eight volumes. To maintain its original form, it was published as a facsimile.