China and the Chinese: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

China and the Chinese, credited to Herbert Allen Giles, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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Librivox recording of China and the Chinese, by Herbert Allen Giles. Read by David Barnes Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University's second professor of Chinese. His published works cover Chinese language and literature, history and philosophy. This series of lectures, published as "China and the Chinese," was given at Columbia University in 1902, to mark the establishment of a Chinese professorship there. The lectures were not intended for the specialist, more to urge a wider and more systematic study of China and its culture, and to encourage new students into the field. While many of the observations are just as relevant today, others will remind us how much China has changed since the period of the Manchu Qing dynasty in which he wrote. Lecture I - The Chinese Language Lecture II - A Chinese Library Lecture III - Democratic China Lecture IV - China and Ancient Greece Lecture V - Taoism Lecture VI - Some Chinese Manners and Customs (Summary by David Barnes)

Recording facts

• Recording title: China and the Chinese
• Author credits: Herbert Allen Giles
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 4:29:09

Catalogue topics

• history
• china
• chinese
• language

Track guide

1. Preface - Lecture 1 - The Chinese Language — 45:27
2. Lecture 2 - A Chinese Library — 46:15
3. Lecture 3 - Democratic China — 43:57
4. Lecture 4 - China and Ancient Greece — 42:23
5. Lecture 5 - Taoism — 43:15
6. Lecture 6 - Some Chinese Manners and Customs — 47:55

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