The Celestial Empire Or Points And Pickings Of Information About China And The Chinese PDF Download

Excerpt from Points and Pickings of Information About China and the Chinese Points and Pickings It is clear, from the very words that I am not going to put you off with a humdrum account which might send you to sleep. If my book be not full of good information, good feeling, and good temper, it will not be the book I intend to make it. Mine will not be a history Of' China and of the Chinese people, but a careful, cor rect, and Sprightly selection of such things as will afford young people the most pleasure and the most profit. I see now, that you begin to like my title, Points and Pickings, almost as well as I do myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.