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The Mirror Of Kong Ho

The Mirror Of Kong Ho

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Number of Chapters: 15

Length: 05 hours and 57 minutes

Language: English

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

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Introduction -- Estimable Barbarian (David Wales)
Letter 1 – Concerning the journey. The unlawful demons… etc (David Wales)
Letter 2 – Concerning the ill-destined manner of existence of the hound Hercules. etc (David Wales)
Letter 3 – Concerning the virtuous amusements of both old and young. etc (David Wales)
Letter 4 – Concerning a desire to expatiate upon subjects of philosophical importance… etc (David Wales)
Letter 5 – Concerning the neglect of ancestors and its discreditable consequences. etc (David Wales)
Letter 6 – Concerning this persons well-sustained efforts to discover further demons. etc (David Wales)
Letter 7 – Concerning warfare, both as waged by ourselves and by a nation devoid of true civilization. etc (David Wales)
Letter 8 – Concerning the wisdom of the divine Wei Chung… etc (David Wales)
Letter 9 – Concerning the proverb of the highly-accomplished horse. etc (David Wales)
Letter 10 – Concerning the authority of this high official, Sir Philip. etc (David Wales)
Letter 11 – Concerning the game which we should call ‘Locusts’… etc (David Wales)
Letter 12 – Concerning the obvious misunderstanding which has entwined itself about a revered parent’s faculties of passionless discrimination. etc (David Wales)
Letter 13 – Concerning a state of necessity… etc (David Wales)
Letter 14 – Concerning a pressing invitation from an ever benevolently-disposed father… etc (David Wales)
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