Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Chinese at Home, or the Man of Tong and His Land
The Han is noted chie?y amongst a\ literary people, such as the Chinese, as the epoch of the renaissance of their literature; while the Tong, also renowned for its literary excellence, has been compared to our Elizabethan age of literature.
These two periods of China's history were not only renowned for literature: the Han, the reign of whose sovereigns extended from' b.c. 206 to ad. 25, was a glorious epoch, Whether looked at from a literary, historical, military, commercial, or an artistic point Of View; and it was very fitting that its name should be used to designate its sons, as it was the formative period of Chinese polity and institutions, Official and formal.
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