After many years in China, Macgowan sets out to show its people as he met them: farmers, merchants, scholars, women and children, beggars and officials, with their festivals, superstitions, business habits and sudden panics. The book is full of observed detail and genuine affection, though its judgements are those of a British missionary of the 1900s.
A lively, richly illustrated record of daily life in late imperial China. Download the free EPUB.