THE CIVILIZATION OF CHINA

by Herbert A. Giles


Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge,

And sometime H.B.M. Consul at Ningpo




PREFACE

The aim of this work is to suggest a rough outline of Chinese
civilization from the earliest times down to the present period of rapid
and startling transition.

It has been written, primarily, for readers who know little or nothing
of China, in the hope that it may succeed in alluring them to a wider
and more methodical survey.

H.A.G.

Cambridge, May 12, 1911.




THE CIVILIZATION OF CHINA