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A concise introduction to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature.

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The book, Earliest Years at Vassar, Personal Recollections , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and reada...

Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant? China's First Emperor (258-210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2, 000 years. He gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, he created imperial China. He stressed the rule of law but suppressed all opposition, burning books and burying scholars alive. His military achievements are reflected in the astonishing terracotta soldier...

There is great interest in WW1 but almost nobody knows that China not only supplied 340, 000 labourers to support the war effort of the allies, but also in August 1917 declared war on Germany, thus earning a place at the Versailles peace conference.

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Lord Macartney's mission to open up China in 1792 failed, but it did give the Western world its first glimpse of the secretive Middle Kingdom, through the memoirs written by eight different members of the embassy. But the most lively and accessible of the books was that written by Aeneas Anderson, Lord Macartney's valet.

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Julia was a little farm girl and she wanted an exciting life in the city. She arrived in the big city of Memphis when she was about twenty five years of age. She was barely able to rent a room for a week and had no means of employment. She had been trained to be a personal maid but she had no connections for this kind of job. She overcame all of her obstacles by securing a waitress job and therefore meeting the Impeccable Man.

Reproduction of the original: Personal Recollections by Frances A. Wood

Reproduction of the original: Personal Recollections by Frances A. Wood