Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking: (from the 16th to the 20th Century)The enduring interest displayed by many readers in the character of China's great Empress Dowager Tzŭ Hsi, and the generous appreciation accorded to our work on her life and reign, have prompted the belief that the present work, covering a wider stretch of space and time, should prove interesting, and of some value, to those who desire to study the causes, immediate and remote, of recent and current events in the Far East. Until we understand something of the mainsprings of thought and action which determine the governance and daily life of a people-something of their atavistic memories and instincts, of their social, religious and economic systems, it is not possible to sympathise with them in their perils and crises of change, or to render them the assistance which appreciation of their motives and intelligent anticipation of their needs might supply. -- Introduction. |
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| Title | Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking: (from the 16th to the 20th Century) |
| Authors | Sir Edmund Backhouse, John Otway Percy Bland |
| Edition | 2, illustrated |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1914 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 10, 2008 |
| Length | 531 pages |
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