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The Mirror Of Kong Ho

by Ernest BRAMAH (1868 - 1942)

Letter 5 – Concerning the neglect of ancestors and its discreditable consequences. etc

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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Letter 10 – Concerning the authority of this high official, Sir Philip. etc , Letter 11 – Concerning the game which we should call ‘Locusts’… etc , Letter 12 – Concerning the obvious misunderstanding which has entwined itself about a revered parent’s faculties of passionless discrimination. etc , Letter 13 – Concerning a state of necessity… etc , Letter 14 – Concerning a pressing invitation from an ever benevolently-disposed father… etc , Letter 6 – Concerning this persons well-sustained efforts to discover further demons. etc , Letter 7 – Concerning warfare, both as waged by ourselves and by a nation devoid of true civilization. etc , Letter 8 – Concerning the wisdom of the divine Wei Chung… etc , Letter 9 – Concerning the proverb of the highly-accomplished horse. etc