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On the Trail of the Opium Poppy: A Narrative of Travel in the Chief Opium-Producing Provinces of China. E-book. Formato PDF
Alexander Hosie
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
I have spoken of the silks and satins of Chengtu and I may mention that the city contains 6000 looms, while out side the walls there are as many as 3400 looms for the manufacture of silk crapes. There are, too, 500 gauze looms in and around the city with numerous ribbon looms, and the weaving of silk braid by hand...
Szechwan: Its Products, Industries and Resources. E-book. Formato PDF
Alexander Hosie
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
In 1874 Augustus Raymond Margary, a young British Consular Officer, was instructed to cross China to meet and conduct a Mission from India having for its object the exploration of a trade route from India through Burma into Western China. He left Shanghai on the 22nd of August, travelling by steamer up the Yangtsze...
On the Trail of the Opium Poppy: A Narrative of Travel in the Chief Opium-Producing Provinces of China. E-book. Formato PDF
Alexander Hosie
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
This book is not a history of the Opium Question, nor does it deal with the evils which attend the abuse of the drug. It is a plain narrative of journeys made in China during the years 1910 and 1911 for the purpose of investigating the extent of poppy-cultivation in those provinces which had hitherto been the chief...
Three Years in Western China: A Narrative of Three Journeys in Ssu-Ch'uan, Kuei-Chow, and Yün-Nan. E-book. Formato PDF
Alexander Hosie
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
The following pages are intended to present a picture of Western China as the writer saw it in 1882, 1883, and 1884.Chapter VII., in a somewhat modified form, was read at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on the 22nd of February, and published in the Proceedings for June, 1886; Chapter XL. was read at the...