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  • China's Revolution, 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War

    by Edwin John Dingle ...
    The story of the great Chinese Revolution of 1911-12 will probably never be told fully or accurately. China is a continent in its vast area. Its population is one-fourth of the whole human race. The country is not opened up by roads or railways and travel generally is arduous and slow; exaggeration among the people, as among all Orientals, is second nature. And so it would be at once impossible ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Voice of the Logos

    by Edwin John Dingle ...
    This Volume Presents An Outer Conception Of The Science Of Mentalphysics.Many people, however, ask "What is the Logos?"I must explain, then, that in all philosophy and theology, ancient and modern, the word "Logos" has always been used. Its full meaning, however, is obscure. It is a Greek word, whose dictionary definition is "the word or form which expresses a thought; also the thought." Webster ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Across China on Foot

    by Edwin John Dingle ...
    Edwin Dingle's Across China on Foot is one of the great classics of China adventure writing, first published in 1911. Dingle was articulate, perceptive and an eccentric in the true British tradition. He ended up founding his own religion in the United States. Here, he recounts his adventures as he travels up the Yangtze River from Shanghai and then by foot southwest across some of China's most ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The Dragon Empress

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  • The Soong Sisters

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    "If the story of the Soong family were told as fiction, people would say it was fascinating but too improbable. . . . A dramatic human chronicle . . . engrossing." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong sisters—Eling, Chingling and ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Russia (1907)

    by Mary Platt Parmele ...
    First published in 1907. According to the Preface: "If this book seems to have departed from the proper ideal of historic narrative--if it is the history of a Power, and not of a People--it is because the Russian people have had no history yet. There has been no evolution of a Russian nation, but only of a vast governing system; and the words "Russian Empire" stand for a majestic world-power in ... Read more

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  • China Only Yesterday, 1850–1950

    A Century of Change

    by Emily Hahn ...
    A fascinating journey through 100 years of Chinese history, beginning with the historic Treaty of Nanking and ending with Mao Tse-tung's creation of the Chinese People's Republic, by the the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China from 1935 to 1941For centuries, China's code of behavior was incomprehensible to Westerners whom the Chinese viewed as irredeemable barbarians. Presenting ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Russia

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  • Emily Hahn on China

    Chiang Kai-Shek and China Only Yesterday, 1850–1950

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  • The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes

    by The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley ...
    First published in 1958. This volume translates and places in the appropriate historical context a number of private documents, such as diaries, autobiographies and confessions, which explain what the Opium War felt like on the Chinese side. ... Read more

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