Mirror Of Kong Ho

Mirror Of Kong Ho

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  • Genres: 
    Epistolary fiction
  • Languages: 
    English
  • Provider: Librivox
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This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience of Western civilization in late nineteenth century London. The author is delightfully humorous. - Summary by david wales
Chapters
  • 01
    Introduction -- Estimable Barbarian
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  • 02
    Letter 1 – Concerning the journey. The unlawful demons… etc
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  • 03
    Letter 2 – Concerning the ill-destined manner of existence of the hound Hercules. etc
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  • 04
    Letter 3 – Concerning the virtuous amusements of both old and young. etc
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  • 05
    Letter 4 – Concerning a desire to expatiate upon subjects of philosophical importance… etc
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  • 06
    Letter 5 – Concerning the neglect of ancestors and its discreditable consequences. etc
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  • 07
    Letter 6 – Concerning this persons well-sustained efforts to discover further demons. etc
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  • 08
    Letter 7 – Concerning warfare, both as waged by ourselves and by a nation devoid of true civilization. etc
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  • 09
    Letter 8 – Concerning the wisdom of the divine Wei Chung… etc
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  • 10
    Letter 9 – Concerning the proverb of the highly-accomplished horse. etc
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  • 11
    Letter 10 – Concerning the authority of this high official, Sir Philip. etc
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  • 12
    Letter 11 – Concerning the game which we should call ‘Locusts’… etc
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  • 13
    Letter 12 – Concerning the obvious misunderstanding which has entwined itself about a revered parent’s faculties of passionless discrimination. etc
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  • 14
    Letter 13 – Concerning a state of necessity… etc
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  • 15
    Letter 14 – Concerning a pressing invitation from an ever benevolently-disposed father… etc
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