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Paperback Myths and Legends of China Book

ISBN: 0486280926

ISBN13: 9780486280929

Myths and Legends of China

Werner arrived in Peking in the 1880s attached to the British Legation as a student interpreter. Werner remained in the British consular service in China until 1914 serving in postings including time working in the Chancery at the Peking Legation, then a year in Canton, two in Tientsin and another couple in Macao. He later spent a year in Hangchow, one in the Pagoda Anchorage, the isolated Kiungchow on Hainan Island, a couple of years on the Gulf...

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Rated 4 stars
pre-modern orientalist perspective; excellent depth, breadth

To appreciate this book you must take it with a grain of salt (or several). The author is a an old school orientalist, writing in the days when the Chinese Empire still had an emperor and was thoroughly infilitrated by colonial powers (fyi, thats before WWII). To a modern reader Werner seems condescending, but you can tell he has a genuine love for Chinese culture and people even when he is moralizing about the failures...

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