Author: Sir Alexander Hosie
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-09-07
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781333498184
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Excerpt from Manchuria, Vol. 14: Its People, Resources and Recent History The wonders of Manchuria, its recent history and its people, its resources and its trade are set forth in the following pages in a fascinating manner by Sir Alexander Hosie, who is at present consul-general for Great Britain at T ientsin, having been a resident of China for practi cally forty years. He has an intimate knowledge of the spoken and written Chinese language dialects as well as the Manchurian tongue, and he is regarded as an undis puted authority on questions relating to Manchuria. 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.