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| Title | The People of China: Their Country, History, Life, Ideas, and Relations with the Foreigner Methuen's colonial library |
| Author | John William Robertson Scott |
| Publisher | Methuen & Company, 1900 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Oct 6, 2005 |
| Length | 198 pages |
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