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Gu Hongming was born in British Malaya to a Chinese father and a Portuguese mother. In 1873, he studied literature in Edinburgh, continued civil engineering studies in Leipzig, and later pursued law studies in Paris. He eventually moved to China, where he worked as an advisor for over two decades.

In this groundbreaking work, Gu Hongming introduces modern China, its culture, and people through the following essays: The Spirit of the Chinese People, The Chinese Woman, The Chinese Language, John Smith in China, A Great Sinologue, Chinese Scholarship, The Religion of Mob-worship or the War and the Way Out and Civilisation and Anarchy or the Moral Problem of the Far Eastern Question.

References: OCLC 7121543, 606207510.