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China

Name: China
Author: Frank G. Carpenter

Frank G. Carpenter

Read by BettyB · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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A Word Before We Start (3:22)
Hong Kong, Great Britain's Gateway to China (18:17)
The Monte Carlo of the Far East (19:49)
The Wonder that is China (20:51)
The City of Rams in the 20th Century (19:16)
Through Old Canton (23:19)
In Shanghai (20:51)
The Far Eastern Land of Cotton (14:38)
Secret Societies and Labor Unions (19:22)
The Hangchow Bore (11:29)
The City of Heaven (18:09)
Along the Grand Canal (20:03)
Soochow, the Athens of China (14:04)
The World's Oldest Poultry Farmers (13:35)
In the City of Fine Silks (17:03)
Nanking, New and Old (18:00)
The New China Goes to School (17:12)
Up the Yang-tse to Hankow (17:36)
To Tsinanfu on the Blue Express (15:51)
Shan-tung and its Capital (18:46)
In the Holy Land of China (22:22)
Tientsin (16:20)
The Story of China's Capital (17:51)
Shops and Shrines of Peiking (18:17)
The Women of China (22:11)
The Great Chinese Wall (15:37)
The Manchus Ancient Capital (18:31)
Farms and Farming in Manchuria (21:09)
In the Hung-Hutze Country (18:44)
Where Japan Meets China (15:01)
Port Arthur, A Fallen Gibraltar (15:43)