Emily Georgiana Kemp, an artist and traveller, set out to show readers the China that had cast its spell on her. Starting from Shanghai, she travels through Shantung, the German sphere of influence, describing silk-weaving, country days, the city of Tsinan and the officials, scholars and villagers she met and longed to paint.
An observant early twentieth-century travel book by one of the period’s adventurous women travellers. Download the free EPUB.