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A Glance at the Interior of China, Obtained during a Journey through the Silk and Green Tea Districts: Taken in 1845
A Glance at the interior of China, obtained during a Journey through the silk and green tea countries.British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe 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 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 TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition++++British LibraryMedhurst, Walter Henry;1850.8º.10056.c.6.
536 pages, Paperback
First published May 7, 2001
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December 4, 2025
This description of rural and urban China under the Qing dynasty is fascinating.
Medhurst is a brilliant storyteller and Sinologist who meticulously describes Chinese cultural habits starting with clothing, eating habits or even technological assets like the precise description of silk and tea making. What struck me the most was probably the fact that Chinese people have remained much the same in their treatment and curiosity towards foreigners.
I found some sense of timelessness in that regard, travelling to China today as a foreigner will give you similar treatments of curious looks, naive questions, sometimes with more or less true assumptions. Medhurst even as his profession as a pastor barely mentions religion and respects Chinese principles stemming from Confucianism and had all in all a totally non ethnocentric approach to his journey. His approach was based on understanding and non judgement, which are qualities that must have been rare in 1850. The fact that he is a Westerner that doesn’t have a paternalistic view on the rest of the world makes him more interesting and multifaceted.
Lovely read for any Sinophile.
Medhurst is a brilliant storyteller and Sinologist who meticulously describes Chinese cultural habits starting with clothing, eating habits or even technological assets like the precise description of silk and tea making. What struck me the most was probably the fact that Chinese people have remained much the same in their treatment and curiosity towards foreigners.
I found some sense of timelessness in that regard, travelling to China today as a foreigner will give you similar treatments of curious looks, naive questions, sometimes with more or less true assumptions. Medhurst even as his profession as a pastor barely mentions religion and respects Chinese principles stemming from Confucianism and had all in all a totally non ethnocentric approach to his journey. His approach was based on understanding and non judgement, which are qualities that must have been rare in 1850. The fact that he is a Westerner that doesn’t have a paternalistic view on the rest of the world makes him more interesting and multifaceted.
Lovely read for any Sinophile.
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