The Orient Explorer Collection (Box set)

co-published with Guangxi Normal Press

The box set focuses on the theme “Women Writers” and features seven books written by women from various walks of life. It is suitable for readers interested in early China depicted by women travellers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Each volume of the collection is to reignite interest and also to allow readers to explore how these books relate to the region today.

With the Empress Dowager
Katharine A. CARL
This book provides a sensational account of the author’s time with the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Chinese Court while painting her portrait for an exposition in St. Louis in the United States.
978-962-937-405-1 • HK$278 / US$36
Jan 2024 • 140 x 216 mm • 396 pp • Pb

A Woman in China
Mary GAUNT
This book presents both a memoir and a genuine account of the geography and history of China as seen through the eyes of an Australian author best known for travel books and fiction writing.
978-962-937-406-8 • HK$278 / US$36
Jan 2024 • 140 x 216 mm • 556 pp • Pb

My Chinese Days
Gulielma Fell ALSOP
Doctor Wilhelmina, a young idealistic American physician and the leading character in this story, is a fictional amalgamation of several real women that worked as missionary doctors in twentieth century China. The experiences described are largely those of the author, Gulielma Fell Alsop, who was a medical missionary in Shanghai.
978-962-937-647-5 • HK$278 / US$36
Jan 2024 • 140 x 216 mm • 316 pp • Pb

Pagoda Shadows: Studies from Life in China

Adele M. FIELDE
Each chapter in this book presents a stand-alone account from various European missionary women, Chinese missionary converts, and the author herself, which together form a unique picture of China in the late 1800s.
978-962-937-648-2 • HK$278 / US$36
Jan 2024 • 140 x 216 mm • 320 pp • Pb

Daughters of China: Sketches of Domestic Life in the Celestial Empire
Eliza J. Gillett BRIDGMAN
This book provides a description of the author’s life as a missionary in China in the mid-1800s, including time spent in Canton as well as Shanghai.
978-962-937-649-9 • HK$278 / US$36 • Jan 2024
140 x 216 mm • 270 pp • Pb

Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them
Mrs Archibald LITTLE
With a combination of translated Chinese documents, newspaper excerpts, and essays from other authors, this book is a travelogue, memoir, and political commentary compiled by a well‑known novelist and social campaigner.
978-962-937-650-5 • HK$278 / US$36 • Jan 2024
140 x 216 mm • 654 pp • Pb

China: The Long-Lived Empire
Eliza Ruhamah SCIDMORE
This book is an encompassing text that provides an excellent foundation for understanding the physical setting and political climate in nineteenth-century China.
978-962-937-651-2 • HK$278 / US$36 • Jan 2024
140 x 216 mm • 504 pp • Pb