The Chinese People - A Handbook on China #250540

This Handbook is intended to furnish students particularly students of Foreign Missions — with a repertory of information on things Chinese, and to form an introduction to Wider study. The biblio graphical lists appended to the volume will provide guidance to those readers who wish to extend further their researches into any of the subjects here discussed. The materials supplied in the following chapters have been collected and arranged from various sources, supplemented by the writer's own information and reflections, which are based on the knowledge and experience gained during his residence in mid-china, as a missionary of the Church Missionary Society, since 1861.