Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy

Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy

Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese BoyThis book is a partial explanation of the phenomenon...
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Author: Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox),1877-1930
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Language: English
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Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy

Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy

¥2,151 ¥1,075

Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy

¥2,151 ¥1,075
Author: Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox),1877-1930
Format: eBook
Language: English

Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy

This book is a partial explanation of the phenomenon of China which seems so strange when curtly dealt with in the daily press. It has quality of being true and should therefore be known. Peking, July, 1919 [1] Wang the Ninth was born a few years before the end of the nineteenth century in a village called prosaically in the vernacular Ten Li Hamlet because it lay ten li or Chinese miles from the great imperial highway. He was the eighth child; that was why, according to immemorial custom, he was called the Ninth, since the numeral eight added to his patronymic signified that opprobrious epithet term "tortoise," a nickname which no Chinese could survive. When he was little more than three and scarcely weaned (for the children of this land are suckled until they can run) he was unceremoniously put on a creaking wheelbarrow and trundled off into the unknown. This inconsequential hegira was the beginning of his great adventures,and was the natural aftermath of a curiously swift tragedy in an environment saturated with inaction.[2] ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 37376
Author: Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
Release Date: Sep 10, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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