China / by Robert K. Douglas ; published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

  • Robert Kennaway Douglas
Date:
1887
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Credit: China / by Robert K. Douglas ; published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. The demand for a second edition of this work, the first being now out of print, has afforded me an opportunity of revising and supplementing its pages. The advance which has been made since 1882 in his- torical and philological researches with regard to the Chinese has enabled me to affirm statements which I was then only able to make hypothetically, and to amend others which were dependent on dates which have since proved to be untrustworthy. The record of recent events, also, has been brought down to the present time, and chapters on Modern Pro- gress ; Manufactures, Coins, and Games; and Chris- tianity in China, have been added to the original work. ROBERT K. DOUGLAS. King’s Coi.lege, London, April 12, 1887.