China’s former minister to the United States compares the two countries frankly and good-humouredly, writing on American names, prosperity, government, education, women and their fashions, dress, theatres and relations with China. Some of his proposals are eccentric and his hopes for world peace were overtaken by events, but his observations are often shrewd.
A rare and entertaining view of America in 1914 from a cultured Chinese statesman. Download the free EPUB.