{"product_id":"land-of-the-dragon-my-boating-and-shooting-excursions-to-the-gorges-of-the-upper-yangtze-paperback-9781108013819","title":"Land of the Dragon; My Boating and Shooting Excursions to the Gorges of the Upper Yangtze (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108013819","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLand of the Dragon\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMy Boating and Shooting Excursions to the Gorges of the Upper Yangtze\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished in 1889, this travel diary gives a lively account of the life of a British civil servant in China.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam Spencer Percival (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108013819, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 June 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 1 b\/w illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFirst published in 1889, Land of the Dragon provides a lively account of William Spencer Percival's daily life as a British civil servant working in Shanghai at the end of the nineteenth century. An author of several travel books such as Twenty Years in the Far East (1905), Percival takes his 'sympathetic' British friends' prejudices about China as pretext to give a thorough account of his life in the East. He delights in relating his boating and hunting excursions in the Chinese countryside, and his adventures – camping out, shooting pigs, and towing through rapids – are packed with often extraordinary anecdotes about the land, the Chinese people, and other foreigners, including American and Roman Catholic missionaries. Part travel diary, part anthropological study, this book gives a valuable insight into the relationship between the British and the people of Qing dynasty China.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Shanghai\u003cbr\u003e 2. Start for the gorges\u003cbr\u003e 3. The British Consulate, Hankow\u003cbr\u003e 4. The first rapid\u003cbr\u003e 5. Washing for gold\u003cbr\u003e 6. Mr Archibald Little\u003cbr\u003e 7. Country roads\u003cbr\u003e 8. Waifs and strays\u003cbr\u003e 9. Reflections\u003cbr\u003e 10. The lotus and the poppy opium\u003cbr\u003e 11. The new world\u003cbr\u003e Addendum.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265932742936,"sku":"9781108013819","price":32.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108013819i.jpg?v=1694869282","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/land-of-the-dragon-my-boating-and-shooting-excursions-to-the-gorges-of-the-upper-yangtze-paperback-9781108013819","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}