In the Land of the Laughing Buddha The Adventures of An American
Barbarian in China By Upton Close Josef Washington Hall
Correspondent, Member Explorers Club Lecturer on Pacific Asia,
University of Washington Illustrated G. P. Putnams Sons XewYork
London 33 e Knickerbocker rei 1924 Copyright, 1924 by G. P. Putnams
Sona Made m the United States of America Dedicated to Newspapermen
who follow the Hunch All of which I saw and part of which I was.
VIKGIL Mneid, t Dryden t Book II THE author thanks his sister, Mrs.
Louise Roberts, formerly of Shanghai, China, who has been his
encourager from child hood his wife, Nettie Lipkaman Hall, whose
bravery is in separably bound up with these adventures Professor
William A. Spieer of Washington, D. C., collaborator in the work of
preparation Mr. Louis D. Proelick, Editor of Asia Magazine, who has
read the manuscript and given invaluable suggestions Mr, George
Palmer Putnam, friendly critic and wise adviser as well as
publisher and the many other friends of various races, who have
given aid in making and recording the story. That the reader may
enjoy the tart euphony of Chinese names, proper names are spelled
as pronounced, all systems of Romanization to the contrary
notwithstanding, except where a certain spelling has become
current, for which cases a key-spelling is given at the end of the
book. THE MANNER OF THE PLAY THIS is a romance, not an historical
or political treatise. However, it is a fact romance. Let all
readers be enter tained and let him be instructed who will. The
writer tells the story with a view neither to making the Chinese
appear ridiculous, nor to making out a case for their superior way
of doing things. He tells the story for thestorys sake with a
sympathy born of sharing the elations and reverses of its actors.
He has taken an occasional r61e himself in the acting, yet he
regards himself as a super rather than a principal. A white
barbarian may be in the Chinese world, but he never becomes of it.
He may be an onlooker, an adviser, or a highly-flattered lackey,
but he never becomes more than the utensil of the more cunning and
sophisticated Chinese mind. The Chinese, who have been thought of
as the most prosaic race in the world, are in some respects the
most entertaining It is the laughter-loving Chinese mind which took
the sober, introspective Buddha of India and made of him the merry
genie, Mi-Do. History since the establishment of the Republic has
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