Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from China, the Land of Contradictions
China has always been exclusive and has desired no ex tension oi her acquaintance in any direction. Moreover, there was, and is, an intense national conceit among the Chinese, and they regarded with contempt and abhor rence all nations that had not had the benefit of their.
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