Article: John Henry Gray. China: A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People.(Book review)

John Henry Gray. China: A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People. Edited by William Gow Gregor. New York: Dover Publications, 2003. xxx, 992 pp. Paperback $34.95, ISBN o-486-42487-1. (Facsimile of the 1878 edition originally published in London in two volumes by Macmillan.)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries foreign residents and travelers in China produced a vast archive of publications, encompassing every genre from autobiographical memoirs and guidebooks to political tracts and proto-ethnographies. These publications have proved useful both for studies of the representation of China to foreign audiences and as accounts of ...

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