Stock ID #165743 Simple Truths: The English Version of A Small Treatise on Political Economy for the Information of Chinamen. C. T. GARDNER, CHRISTOPHER, THOMAS.
Simple Truths: The English Version of A Small Treatise on Political Economy for the Information of Chinamen.
Simple Truths: The English Version of A Small Treatise on Political Economy for the Information of Chinamen.
Simple Truths: The English Version of A Small Treatise on Political Economy for the Information of Chinamen.

Simple Truths: The English Version of A Small Treatise on Political Economy for the Information of Chinamen.

Shanghai. American Presbyterian Mission Press. 1898. 1st edition. Stock ID #165743

Translated into Chinese by the Rev. J. Sadler. Black pebbled linen covered spine and cream textured paper boards lettered and decorated in black, spine edges split, board edges and corners rubbed, marbled edges to text block, withdrawn stamp on lower edge of front paste down and a stamp of the Strand Bookstore. Tipped-in label giving the original sale price states " Proceeds to be devoted to the Hospital work for the London Missionary ociety (Sic). The S omitted. 209pp. Handwritten dedication on the front free endpaper: The Library Kings College London from an old pupil, The Author. A very good copy of a scarce title.

The author tells us in the preface that he felt inspired to write this book after a friend "remarked to me on the utter ignorance of the Chinese, of all classes of the rudiments of political economy". With the urging also of other friends, the sixteen essays which make up this book came to be published in both Chinese and in this English language edition. Chapter headings include: Interchange of Commodities; Saving of Labour; Loans; Honesty; Education; Taxation; Charity and Diffusion of Wealth.

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