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A String of Chinese Peach-Stones (Paperback)
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A String of Chinese Peach-Stones (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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William Arthur Cornaby (1860 1921) was born in London and educated
at the School of Mines before training as a Methodist minister. In
1885 Cornaby was sent as a missionary to Wuhan, central China, and
A String of Chinese Peach-Stones (1895) was inspired by his
experiences. Cornaby explains that his title suggests that the
reader possesses 'a collection of desiccated tales, legends, and
the like, picked up here and there along the highways and byways of
China'. Cornaby's work covers the period 1849 1867, and discusses
the major episodes of the Taiping Rebellion (1850 1864) as well as
providing a detailed account of village life in central China, with
its farm work, foods, festivals, customs and rituals that remains
of interest to anthropologists and historians today. Cornaby's aim
was to educate his English readers and to interest them in the
culture that so dominated his own life and work.
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