Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Chinese Repository, Vol. 18: From January to December 1849
Art. IV. The sale of officia rank, ado ted by the government of China for ia creasing its revenue; translation a proclamation, calling on the people to come forward and make purchases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
