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Binding: Hardcover
Label: A. L. Burt Company
Manufacturer: A. L. Burt Company
Number Of Pages: 371
Publication Date: 1927
Publisher: A. L. Burt Company
Sales Rank: 5988902
Studio: A. L. Burt Company
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"A man in Vienna was fondling his fiddle; a girl in Poughkeepsie was gathering violets; an old missionary in a far part of far China--the only white man for many an inaccessible mile--sat in his sunny courtyard reading a time-yellowed silk of Chang Ts' Ai-P'in's. A bandit in Sze-ch'uen was sharpening his knife. None of them had ever heard of the others, or could have believed how soon their lives were to become entangled." These are the characters and this is the setting of Mrs. Miln's new novel of China, which may be considered a worthy successor to "It Happened in Peking" revealing, as it does, a series of exciting scenes and thrilling events in Yun-nan, one of the loveliest of Chinese provinces. The story throughout is colored with the sectional strife and the differences between the Orient and the Occident which have resulted in the present serious state of affairs throughout China.
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