The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 2Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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Page 716
... Chinese and Japanese can read one another's writing , they cannot speak together . Religion Before Buddhism was introduced from China in the sixth century A.D. , bringing with it Chinese literature and civilisation , the prevailing ...
... Chinese and Japanese can read one another's writing , they cannot speak together . Religion Before Buddhism was introduced from China in the sixth century A.D. , bringing with it Chinese literature and civilisation , the prevailing ...
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... Chinese belong to another world , remain incomprehensible to our ideas and compel us to revise all our traditional values of civilisation . The Chinese Mind But the chief and least comprehensible difference between the European and the ...
... Chinese belong to another world , remain incomprehensible to our ideas and compel us to revise all our traditional values of civilisation . The Chinese Mind But the chief and least comprehensible difference between the European and the ...
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... Chinese industry . Chinese merchants are not only among the shrewdest business men in the world , but they have an high standard of commercial morality . Chinese labour is proverbial for thrift and sobriety and adaptability , and ...
... Chinese industry . Chinese merchants are not only among the shrewdest business men in the world , but they have an high standard of commercial morality . Chinese labour is proverbial for thrift and sobriety and adaptability , and ...
Contents
INDIA Concluded | 501 |
MALAYA BORNEO AND HONG KONG | 527 |
AUSTRALIA | 531 |
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