Ebook: Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period (1644-1912), 1-2

Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period is more than a biographical dictionary. It is the most detailed and the best history of China of the last three hundred years that one can find anywhere today. It is written in the form of biographies of eight hundred men and women who made that history. This form, by the way, is in line with the Chinese tradition of historiography.