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Title: Life and sport in China
Second Edition

Author: Oliver G. Ready

Release Date: August 24, 2008 [EBook #26412]

Language: English

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LIFE AND SPORT IN CHINA

LIFE AND SPORT
IN CHINA

BY

OLIVER G. READY, B.A.

_SECOND EDITION_

LONDON
CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED
1904

[Illustration: PAGODA, NEAR HANKOW.
_Frontispiece._]

AUTHOR'S NOTE

The British public is greatly handicapped in forming an intelligent
appreciation of happenings in China by a lack of that initial
experience which can only be gained by residence in the country.

In this little work I have endeavoured to pla