Johnston — later tutor to the last emperor — crossed from Peking through Shanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan to the Burmese border, and writes with unusual sympathy and scholarship: the temples and their Buddhism, the tribal peoples of the south-west, the missionaries, and the officials he dealt with as a colonial servant.
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