Letters from a Chinese Official Being an Eastern View of Western Civilization

12mo, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1904. First American edition. Half red morocco and marbled boards, spines decorated with gilt-stamped roses, t.e.g.; original wrappers bound in. Edges a little rubbed, else very good.

The author is not exactly awe-struck by Western civilization: “...much as I admire in some its aspects the achievement of Western civilization, I have seen nothing which could make me regret that I was born a citizen of the East.”

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