The Golden Age of China. Papers of the Literary Department of the American Women's Club of Shanghai.

£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A collection of papers on the time from the T’ang dynasty, A.D. 618, up to the fall of the Qing and the establishment of the Republic in 1911, all written by American women living in Shanghai during the 1920s. Includes contributions by Geraldine Townend Fitch, Mrs. Sam. Couling, Mrs. E Harrison King, Miss Marian Meade, and two essays by Herbert A Giles (Bribery and Corruption the Two Brides).

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