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Title: Village Life in China
A Study in Sociology

Author: Arthur H. Smith

Release Date: August 22, 2010 [EBook #33485]

Language: English

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Village Life in China

_TENTH THOUSAND Chinese Characteristics_

_BY Rev. ARTHUR H. SMITH, D.D._

For Twenty-six Years a Missionary of the American Board in China.

_With Sixteen Illustrations from Photographs, an index and a Glossary._

_800, decorated cloth, $1.25_

From The Independent.

There is no glamour thrown over the race, neither is there failure to
recognize those qualities that have made them so backward in civilization,
so hostile to foreigners, so repugnant to many in our land. Everyone
interested in China or the Chinese should read the book.

From The New York Times.

If we are not to accept the studies that missionaries have made of the
Chinese, whose are we to accept? We do not mean the accounts of the
seminary young man who, fresh from his studies, lives in China for a
six-month, and then writes of his experiences, but of the men like the
author of this volume, who has had a residence of twenty-two years in
China.

Mr. Smith's volume is a highly entertaining one, showing uncommon
shrewdness, with keen analysis of character.

From The Critic.

There is all the difference between an intaglio in onyx and a pencil
scrawl on paper to be discovered between Mr. Smith's book and the printed
prattle of the average globe-trotter. Our author's work has been done, as
it were, with a chisel and an emery wheel. He goes deeply beneath the
surface.

From The Standard.

It is much the most interesting book upon China which we have ever read,
and it is specially valuable as a practical commentary upon the national
and social institutions of the Chinese, the natural effect of their long
isolation, and the