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The Fan-Qui in China: Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century China
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This threevolume set presents one of the most detailed descriptions of early 19thcentury China by a Western visitor, Charles Toogood Downing.
The volumes offer a unique portrait of the routine life of all the peoples of Canton (modern day Guangzhou), both higher and lower classes, Western and Chinese, and keen insights on how the indigenous Chinese population viewed foreigners working and living in their country (the Fanqui or foreign devils of the title). Among the wide range of top...
The volumes offer a unique portrait of the routine life of all the peoples of Canton (modern day Guangzhou), both higher and lower classes, Western and Chinese, and keen insights on how the indigenous Chinese population viewed foreigners working and living in their country (the Fanqui or foreign devils of the title). Among the wide range of top...