Author: Bryan, William Jennings
Title: Letters to a Chinese Official: Being a Western View of Eastern Civilization
Description: Lincoln, NB: The Commoner Publishing Company, 1909. 1909. Lincoln, NB: The Commoner Publishing Company, 1909. 1909. Good. - Small octavo, brown cloth with a printed paper label on the front cover. The binding is rubbed & bumped with some small stains to the rear cover. The label is rubbed, soiled & chipped with small pieces out & there is a handwritten title on the spine. viii, [i] & 97 pages. There is some very light foxing to the pastedowns & endpapers with some small stains to the first page of the text. Good.

Later printing. The book is a reply to "Letters from a Chinese Official", which criticized America's religion and way of life. Bryan notes in his preface that it turned out the letters were not written by a Chinese author, but by an Englishman, based on material provided by a Chinese official. Good .

Keywords: AMERICANA; WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN; LETTERS TO A CHINESE OFFICIAL; AMERICA; CHINA; EAST; WEST; CONFUCIANSIM; CHRISTIANITY.

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