Edmond Plauchut, a French writer who spent many years in China, gives a compact account of the Chinese past and present: their religions, their literature and their long-established customs. He touches on the diplomacy of the 1890s, when European talk of partitioning China was in the air, and writes with the assumptions of his era.
A concise period overview of China as late-nineteenth-century Europe understood it. Download the free EPUB.