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My Chinese days

Gulielma Fell Alsop · 1918 · Scanned text · Free in the US

71,643 words · about 5 h 1 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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About this book

Author
Gulielma Fell Alsop
Language
English
Published
1918
Length
71,643 words · about 5 h 1 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States · PD-US by publication date

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter under 1 min
  2. Preface under 1 min
  3. XX List Of Plates about 5 h

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Front matter

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Preface

Reaching China in a moment of great dramatic importance, in fact on the very day that the Peace Delegation arrived in Shanghai, in 191 1, I found from the very first all the events and happenings in my daily life and in the lives of those about me charged with a vital significance.

In the story of Doctor Wilhelmina I have endeavored to give the impressions and readjustments that take place in a missionary doctor in presentday China. Some of the incidents, in especial the rescue of the slave girls at Kaung Wan, are borrowed from the heroism of acquaintances, but the great majority happened under my very eyes.

The Flaming Wind .

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