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Chinese Sketches

Chinese Sketches

By: Herbert Allen Giles
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Herbert Giles was in the diplomatic service in China from 1867 to 1893. His frank observations on Chinese culture and people form the basis of these short essays, published in 1876. On his retirement, he returned to England and served as the Chair of Chinese at Cambridge for 35 years.Copyright Essays Genre Art Drama & Plays
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    Web of Indian Life-Sister Nivedita
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    Herbert Giles was in the diplomatic service in China from 1867 to 1893. His frank observations on Chinese culture and people form the basis of these short essays, published in 1876. On his retirement, he returned to England and served as the Chair of Chinese at Cambridge for 35 years.
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    8 hrs and 35 min
  • Crisis A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 1-W. E. B. Du Bois

    Crisis A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 1-W. E. B. Du Bois
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    Herbert Giles was in the diplomatic service in China from 1867 to 1893. His frank observations on Chinese culture and people form the basis of these short essays, published in 1876. On his retirement, he returned to England and served as the Chair of Chinese at Cambridge for 35 years.
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    1 hr and 32 min
  • Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita-Unknown

    Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita-Unknown
    22 Aug 2026
    Herbert Giles was in the diplomatic service in China from 1867 to 1893. His frank observations on Chinese culture and people form the basis of these short essays, published in 1876. On his retirement, he returned to England and served as the Chair of Chinese at Cambridge for 35 years.
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    1 hr and 58 min
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