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String of Chinese Peach Stones
W. Arthur Cornaby
496 pages, 215 x 140 mm, ISBN - 9971490668
black & white illustrations
Price - S$24.90 Availability - out print
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"... a certain man of the Tang Dynasty, after drinking seven bowls of tea, experienced a stir of air under the armpits, and felt like flying to heaven."
In the above inimitable style, Arthur Cornaby strings together his twenty-four precious peach stones of stories, tales, legends and the like, picked up here and there along the highways and byways of central China between 1849-1867.
This fascinating book about old China describes in vivid detail the initial Christian nature of the Taiping Rebellion and numerous historical and legendary characters.
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