Sidelights on Chinese Life

Sidelights on Chinese Life

Sidelights on Chinese LifeThe Chinamans mind is a profound and inexplicable puzzle that many have vainly endeavoured...
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Author: Macgowan, J. (John),-1922
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Language: English
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Sidelights on Chinese Life

Sidelights on Chinese Life

$103.59 $51.77

Sidelights on Chinese Life

$103.59 $51.77
Author: Macgowan, J. (John),-1922
Format: eBook
Language: English

Sidelights on Chinese Life

The Chinamans mind is a profound and inexplicable puzzle that many have vainly endeavoured to solve. He is a mystery not simply to the foreigner, who has been trained to more open methods of thought, but also to his own countrymen, who are frequently heard to express their astonishment at some exhibition of character, that has never occurred to them during the whole of their oblique life. A Chinese cook who was living in an English family, and who found life so intolerable through some petty devices and schemes of his fellow-servants that he was compelled to resign his situation, was so taken aback at the ingenuity and skill of the manuvres that had been employed to oust him from his employment that, with flashing eyes and a face flushed with excitement, he said, I know the Englishman well, I can accurately gauge his mind, and I can tell exactly how he will usually act; but my own countrymen are a mystery to me that I do not profess to be able to comprehend. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 39486
Author: Macgowan, J. (John)
Release Date: Apr 20, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

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