Excerpt from The Chinese People: A Handbook on China This Handbook is intended to furnish students particularly students of Foreign Missions - with a repertory of information on things Chinese, and to form an introduction to Wider study. The biblio graphical lists appended to the volume will provide guidance to those readers who wish to extend further their researches into any of the subjects here discussed. The materials supplied in the following chapters have been collected and arranged from various sources, supplemented by the writer's own information and reflections, which are based on the knowledge and experience gained during his residence in mid-china, as a missionary of the Church Missionary Society, since 1861. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.