Image: A Yankee on the Yangtze - being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma (1904) (14804848603)

Description: Identifier: yankeeonyangtzeb00geil (find matches) Title: A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Geil, William Edgar, 1865-1925 Subjects: China -- Description and travel Yangtze River (China) Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: official prohibition excites little competition.Paper making is another industry of Szechuen, andI have seen fifty coolies in a line, each carrying wastebamboo to the mills to be manufactured into pulp.They are supposed to carry one hundred Englishpounds over thirty miles per diem. Coal and ironabound in the hinterland, clear up into the Provincesof Kansuh and Shensi. The output of sulphur isconsiderable in parts of the Province, but local taxa-tion has killed the goose which laid the golden egg.Although I became partly initiated into the mysteriesof Chinese taels (not pig tails, but other taels), I couldnever tell what a Ting or anything else was worth.This inability to size up my wealth gave me a kindredfeeling to the multi-millionaire. The foreign imports amount to little when comparedwith the local products, but, when walking along thestreet, one sees Manchester calico and cotton yarnexhibited for sale in the shops. The middle andupper classes will not wear the blue gown in which Text Appearing After Image: TAKING A MEAL, EARLY RICE. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: A Yankee on the Yangtze - being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma (1904) (14804848603)
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