Publisher's Synopsis
Title: The Middle Kingdom; a survey of the geography, government, education, social life, arts, religion, &c. of the Chinese Empire and its inhabitants. With a new map of the Empire.
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.
The HISTORY OF ASIA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series includes ethnographic and general histories of distinct peripheral coastal regions that comprise South and East Asia. Other works focus on cultural history, archaeology, and linguistics. These books help readers understand the forces that shaped the ancient civilisations and influenced the modern countries of Asia.
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British Library
Williams, Samuel Wells;
1879.
2 vol.; 8°.
010058.ee.44.
