Eric Teichman

Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1921, provides an account of journeys through the North-Western Provinces of China, undertaken in connection with the Anglo-Chinese Opium Treaty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781107455597
• ISBN-10: 1107455596
• Artikelnr.: 41668638

Inhaltsangabe

1. From railhead in Honan to Hsian Fu, the capital of Shensi; 2. From
T'ungkuan on the yellow river across the eastern Ch'inling Shan to Hsingan
on the Han river; 3. From Hsingan up the Han valley to Hanchung; 4. From
Hanchung in the Han valley across the central Ch'inling Shan to Fengshiang
in the Wei basin; 5. From Fengshiang through the loess of western Shensi to
Yenan; 6. From Yenan and Yench'ang through the mountains of eastern Shensi
back to Hsian Fu; 7. From Hsian Fu in Shensi to Chengtu Fu in Szechuan by
the main road; 8. From Hsian Fu in Shensi to Lanchou Fu in Kansu by the
great west road; 9. From Lanchou Fu south to Ch'inchou and thence west to
T'aochou on the Kokonor border; 10. From T'aochou across the grass-lands to
Labrang monastery, and thence via Hochou back to Lanchou Fu; 11. From
Lanchou Fu north to Chenfan in the Alashan desert, and thence west to Êpo
on the Kokonor border; 12. From Êpo south across the Kokonor grass country
to Hsining, and thence overland to Kueihua Ch'eng and railhead; 14. Some
observations regarding foreign missions in the interior of China; 15.
Railways projects in Shensi and Kansu; Index.