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Excerpt from Peking and the Overland Route: With Maps, Plans, and Illustrations Fortunately, beyond a mere fringe of the coast-line of this great grandsire of empires, no such efforts or changes have as yet taken place, and today the Chinese people are as simple and primitive in their habits and customs as they have been for ages past. 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.