The Chinese: a general description of the Empire of China and its inhabitants ... Illustrated with woodcuts. VOLUME I

The ASIAN COLLECTIONS: GEOGRPAHY OF ASIA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Encompassing data on roughly fifty countries of Eurasia, this collection contains books, periodicals, and maps in the languages of East, South, and Southeast Asia. With detailed analyses of the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula, this collection includes rare material valuable for the study of how the region is historically and geographically distinct from its European neighbours.