Vanished China
author:
Thomas W.H. Evans
publishing house:
Unwin Brothers Limited
publication date: 1956
Far Eastern Banking Memories
Thomas W.H. Evans
overview
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contents
Arrival in Tientsin, North China 9
Tientsin -- Treaty Port Life in its Heyday 14
Tientsin Personalilities -- James Watts, C.M.G., "J.M.D." 29
The Manchus lose the "Mandate of Heaven" 36
Climiate -- Summer Resorts 42
The First World War 47
The Northern Capital 52
The Gilded Cage -- Life in the Legation Quarter of Peking 58
Peonies, Picnics and Ponies 74
The Dragon Returns (The Chang Hsun Restoration) 99
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