Across China on Foot (Tales of Old China)

This book first published in 1911 is one of the most important and best written travel books from old China. Edwin Dingle recounts his adventures as he travels up the Yangtze River from Shanghai and then by foot southwest across some of Chinas most wild and woolly territory to Burma. Along the way Dingle absorbed an enormous amount of about life and society in southwest China and describes what he sees in a readable and sensitive way.