Excerpt from Across Chryse, Vol. 1 of 2: Being the Narrative of a Journey of Exploration Through the South China Border Lands, From Canton to Mandalay A paved causeway gives approach to Lin-an across the fields, which were under water, excepting those for poppy cultivation, which were well forward. On the left we passed a large tank, the water of which was being lashed over the causeway by _a high wind. On account of the wind I had to leave the chair, as the men could hardly make their way against it. 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.

Excerpt from Across Chryse, Vol. 1 of 2: Being the Narrative of a Journey of Exploration Through the South China Border Lands, From Canton to Mandalay A similarly ill-informed friend has asked me where Chryse is. I need hardly tell the reader that Indo China is a very modern-name, and that Chryse repre sented to the ancients their vague notions of indo-china. Iam fortunate enough to be able to give the following account of Chryse from the pen of Colonel Henry Yule, the greatest authority on the Subject. 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.

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To the Victorians, the Chinese were invariably "inscrutable." The meaning and provenance of this impression—and, most importantly, its workings in nineteenth-century Protestant missionary encounters with Chinese religion—are at the center of Eric Reinders's Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies, an enlightening look at how missionaries' religious identity, experience, and physical foreignness produced certain representations of China between 1807 and 1937. Reinders first introduces the imaginative world of Victorian missionaries and outlines their application of mind-body dualism to the dualism of self and other. He then explores Western views of the Chinese language, especially ritual language, and Chinese ritual, particularly the kow-tow. His work offers surprising and valuable insight into the visceral nature of the Victorian response to the Chinese—and, more generally, into the nineteenth-century Western representation of China.

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