China and the Chinese, Herbert Allen Giles (13 down 39 to go)

This week, I listened to an audio book called China and the Chinese. The book, which was recommended to me by Librivox-founder, Hugh McGuire, was actually a series of lectures delivered by Herbert Allen Giles, a professor of Chinese at Cambridge University, 1902.

The lectures provide an overview of Chinese culture and politics and, as Hugh noted, are as relevant today as they were then. I was utterly riveted from beginning to end. Lots of great anecdotes and cultural observations.

The audio book was read by David Barnes, who reads articulately with a northern English accent.

My first audio book. Cool. I’m converted.

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