1910 CHANGING CHINA BY GASCOYNE-CECIL MAP & 32 PLATES BEIJING SHANGHAI PEKING

Description: I have here for sale a book entitled CHANGING CHINA by the Rev Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, assisted by Lady Florence Cecil. It was published in 1910 by James Nisbet & Co Ltd. It has a b/w Railway Map of China, and 32 b/w photographic plates arranged over 16 pages. Rubricated title page. The author joined the China Emergency Committee, who invited the author to the Shanghai Centenary Conference. Afterwards he travelled in China, Korea and Japan. He visited the mission centres in China to find out about the country from its missionaries and also to pose the question of establishing a Western University. This is the third impression of this book.The book is divided into 3 main sections - China in Transition - foreign relations, good and bad points of Chinese civilisation, railways and rivers, opium, women, architecture; Religions of China and the Missionary - Confucius, Roman Catholic missions, Western literature in China, medical missions, movement in Korea and Manchuria and the future of Christianity in China; and The New and the Old Learning - education, government, difficulties in the way of education, the need for a university explained. There is an Appendix titled 'Will Russia be represented on the Mission Field?'Navy hardboards with gilt letering to the spine. Ex-library copy so library reference number to the spine and library sticker of Bishop Lyttleton Library, Winchester, to the front endpaper. No library stamps to the pages though. Some light foxing to the first few pages, all others clean. Binding firm. In very good condition. 342 pages, 21 x 15 cm.We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.

Price: 79.99 GBP

Location: Whitegate, Cheshire

End Time: 2025-02-13T11:54:09.000Z

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