China, Carpenter's World Travels, Frank G. Carpenter

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China, By Franck G. Carpenter

Contents

Just a word before we start
Hong-Kong, Great Britain's gateway to China
The Monte Carlo of the far east
The wonder that is China
The City of Rams in the Twentieth Century
Through Old Canton
In Shanghai
The far eastern land of cotton
Secret societies and labour unions
The Hangchow Bore
The City of Heaven
Along the Grand Canal
Soochow, the Athens of China
The world's oldest poultry farmers
In the city of fine silks
Nanking, new and old
The New China goes to school
Up the Yang-Tse to Hankow
To Tsinanfu on the BlueExpress
Shan-Tung and its capital
In the holy land of China
Tientsin
The story of China's capital
Shops and shrines of Peking
The women of China
The Great Chinese Wall
The Manchus' ancient capital
Farms and farming in Manchuria
In the Hung-Hutze country
Where Japan meets China
Port Arthur, a fallen Gibraltar




Here is a "partial" listing of the incredible and rare 105 photographs you will find in this volume...

Feminine globe-trotters of China
Sikh policemen on Queen's Road
Manikins dressed in vines
Soldiers in Canton
Temple of the Five Hundred Genii
On a Cantonese canal
Steamers on the Whangpoo River
Coolie women pulling dandelions
A temple of the City of Heaven
In a Chinese egg factory
The sacred mountain of Weisan
Spinning silk in a Chinese home
The Drum Tower of Nanking
Approach to the Ming tomb
Chinese junks
The Blue Express
Plains along the Yellow River
Tsingtao
Confucian temple
Stone turtle
A Buddhist monastery
Camel caravans from the Gobi Desert
The Temple of Heaven
Entrance to the Ming tombs
Native girl students
The Great Wall of China
Street signs in old Mukden
In a field of kaoliang
Manchurian soldiers
Yamato Hotel in Dairen
At the great Fushun coal mines

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