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The China Provincial Atlas and Geography. First edition, first printing, of this guide to China's 24 provinces, Japanese-controlled Manchuria, and the city of Shanghai, including a short essay by Arthur de Carle Sowerby on "the regional distribution of China's Fauna and Flora". Information on physical geography is accompanied by summaries of communications and industrial infrastructure.The maps were first published in the North-China Daily News but extensively revised for this publication. "The far away interior northern and southern provinces, which life of all beaten tracks and through which no railways have penetrated, remain shrouded in mystery except where the veil has been slightly lifted by exploration expeditions" (introduction).

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