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Intimate China by Archibald Little

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Intimate China
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Publisher: Hutchinson & Co.
ISBN/ASIN: 1402193246
Number of pages: 620

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The Chinese Empire is rather larger than Europe. Being on the eastern side of a great continent, it has the same extremes of climate as are to be found in the United States. Fruits, flowers, and crops vary in like manner. Peking is on about the same parallel as Madrid, Chungking as Cairo, Shanghai as Madeira.

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