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China and the Chinese by H. A. Giles in m4b audiobook format

Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University's second professor of Chinese. This series of lectures, published as "China and the Chinese", was given at Columbia University in 1902, to mark the establishment of a Chinese professorship there. The lectures were not intended for the specialist, more to urge a wider and more systematic study of China and its culture, and to encourage new students into the field.

While many of the observations are just as relevant today, others will remind us how much China has changed since the period of the Manchu Qing dynasty in which he wrote.  (summary by David Barnes)

 




Read by David Barnes - 32kbps mono
                                                  
China_and_the_Chinese_01.m4b    11M  
China_and_the_Chinese_02.m4b    11M  
China_and_the_Chinese_03.m4b    10M  
China_and_the_Chinese_04.m4b    10M  
China_and_the_Chinese_05.m4b    10M  
China_and_the_Chinese_06.m4b    11M



 


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