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
Introduction -- Estimable BarbarianLetter 1 – Concerning the journey. The unlawful demons… etcLetter 2 – Concerning the ill-destined manner of existence of the hound Hercules. etcLetter 3 – Concerning the virtuous amusements of both old and young. etcLetter 4 – Concerning a desire to expatiate upon subjects of philosophical importance… etcLetter 5 – Concerning the neglect of ancestors and its discreditable consequences. etcLetter 6 – Concerning this persons well-sustained efforts to discover further demons. etcLetter 7 – Concerning warfare, both as waged by ourselves and by a nation devoid of true civilization. etcLetter 8 – Concerning the wisdom of the divine Wei Chung… etcLetter 9 – Concerning the proverb of the highly-accomplished horse. etcLetter 10 – Concerning the authority of this high official, Sir Philip. etcLetter 11 – Concerning the game which we should call ‘Locusts’… etcLetter 12 – Concerning the obvious misunderstanding which has entwined itself about a revered parent’s faculties of passionless discrimination. etcLetter 13 – Concerning a state of necessity… etcLetter 14 – Concerning a pressing invitation from an ever benevolently-disposed father… etc
The Mirror Of Kong Ho - Ernest Bramah - Description and brief content, listen free online on the e-library site at Knigi-Audio.com/en/
