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Автор: Min-Chien T.Z.Tyau
Год: 2006
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 348
ISBN: 9781406737400
LONDON THROUGH CHINESE EYES BY MIN-CHIEN T Z. TYAU OR MY SEVEN AND A HALF YEARS IN LONDON FOREWORD In dedicating the present volume to the British People a word or two seems not unnecessary We have called it London through Chinese Eyes or My Seven and a half Years in London but there is no pretence whatsoever at discussion of serious or weighty subjects affecting politics, industry, commerce, etc The chapters here deal only with superficial topics and repre sent merely ones impressions and reminiscences The best title to this volume is the Chinese legend to be read vertically from top downwards: Liu Ying Kuan Kuei Chi, which literally means looking at London through the opening of a bamboo pole We started to write soon after we had returned from England and succeeded in getting through Chapter XVIII before we had to leave the quiet atmosphere of Tsing Hua College for the more exciting task of starting a Chinese daily newspaper in the English language. That caused an interruption of...
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