PROFESSOR OF CHINESE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
LECTURER (1902) ON THE DEAN LUNG FOUNDATION
IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK
THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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1902
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Copyright, 1902,
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The following Lectures were delivered during March, 1902, at ColumbiaUniversity, in the city of New York, to inaugurate the foundation byGeneral Horace W. Carpentier of the Dean Lung Chair of Chinese.
By the express desire of the authorities of Columbia University theseLectures are now printed, and they may serve to record an important andinteresting departure in Oriental studies.
It is not pretended that Chinese scholarship will be in any way advancedby this publication. The Lectures, slight in themselves, were nevermeant for advanced students, but rather to draw attention to, andpossibly arouse some interest in, a subject which will occupy a largerspace in the future than in the present or in the past.
HERBERT A. GILES.
Cambridge, England,
April 15, 1902.
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