Author: Ayscough, Florence Wheelock
Title: A Chinese Mirror: Being Reflections of the Reality Behind Appearance [by] Florence Ayscough; with Drawings by Lucille Douglass
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. Hardcover. 464 p. incl. front. illus. fold. map. 24 cm. Ill.: Lucille Douglass. Very good condition Inscribed and signed by the illustrator for James P. Barnes Contents: The grass hut by the Yellow Reach.--The literary background of the great river.--The Chinese idea of a garden.--Symbolism of the Purple Forbidden City.--T'ai Shan: the great mountain.--Cult of the Spiritual Magistrates of city walls and city moats.--Synopsis of Chinese history from the legendary times to the founding of the republic.

Keywords: Lucille Douglass China - Description and Travel


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