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Article: John Henry Gray. China: A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People.(Book review)
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- China Review International
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- September 22, 2005
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2005 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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