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China and the Chinese
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Title: China and the Chinese
Author: Herbert Allen Giles
Release Date: March 20, 2006 [EBook #18021]
Language: English
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CHINA AND THE CHINESE
CHINA AND THE CHINESE
BY
HERBERT ALLEN GILES, LL.D.
PROFESSOR OF CHINESE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE LECTURER (1902) ON THE DEAN LUNG FOUNDATION IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, Agents. 66 Fifth Avenue
1902
All rights reserved.
Copyright, 1902, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped October, 1902.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
PREFACE
The following Lectures were delivered during March, 1902, at Columbia University, in the city of New York, to inaugurate the foundation by General Horace W. Carpentier of the Dean Lung Chair of Chinese.
By the express desire of the authorities of Columbia University these Lectures are now printed, and they may serve to record an important and interesting departure in Oriental