Johan Gunnar Andersson 1st Ed 1928 The Dragon And The Foreign Devils Hardcover
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Hardcover. 8vo. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, MA. 1928. xi, 341 pgs. Illustrated with 16 b/w plates.First Editoin/First Printing. Bound in black cloth boards with gilt dragon design and red lettering present to the spine and the front board. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Andersson (1874-1960) was a Swedish geologist and professor at the University of Stockholm. He spent 11 years in China, fro...m 1914 to 1925, assisting the Chinese government in establishing institutional geological research. This is his highly detailed and personal record of his observations of China as he experienced it, its culture, society, politics, personalities, and its relationship with Europe and Europeans. Johan Gunnar Andersson 1st Ed 1928 The Dragon and the Foreign Devils Hardcover
