No comments about Man-Hunting in the Desert, Being a Narrative of the Palmer Search-Expedition (1882, 1883).

No comments about Periplus Taiwan 2002/2003: China Regional (Periplus Travel Maps) (China Regional Maps).

No comments about Cults, Customs and Superstitions of India: Being a Revised and Enlarged Edition of 'Indian Life, Religious and Social'.

No comments about Culture Shock! Beijing: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Guides).

No comments about Travels in Imperial China: The Explorations and Discoveries of Pere David.

No comments about A Mortal Flower (China : Autobiography, History, Book 2).

No comments about Your Travel Guide to Ancient China (Passport to History).

2 comments about China's First Hundred: Educational Mission Students in the United States, 1872-1881 (Washington State University Press Reprint).

1. As it is popular to study science and technology in the west, it is not uncommon to hear that So and So is the first in China these days. Many are highly exaggerated claims. This is an authoritative book on the detailed study of first 123 Chinese boys sent by the Chinese imperial court under Yung Wing to go to Hartford, Conn. learning about the language, cultural and
   science. Most became well established as adults in foreign service, engineering, as well as outstanding military officers.
   
   This is a fascinating biography on these young teen boys. When they returned to China they actually faced prejudice and skeptiism. As we look back they actually contributed much to the transformation of modern China. I was fortunate to have been brought up in a family with much foreign educated engineers and have a deep appreciation of
   how modern education can change our society.



2. It's an opportunity to read this book, it gave me the chance to review and understand the background of these students' encounters in lives, although their stories were not such a fantastic & successful one, but they became a group of rather outstanding and brilliant figures in China. Their stories should inspire the younger generations.
   
   In this modern world, lots and lots of Chinese students who came over to foreign lands, not only U.S.A. but some other countries such as New Zealand, tended to complain about the treatment received from their host countries, but should they read through this book and they would accept that these were the facts of lives.
   
   Being a foreinger in this foreign land myself, I would recommend the Chinese students to understand the hard fact of lives. How this group of Overseas Students from China encountered. And hopefully that would be an inspiration to their own encounter.

No comments about Ancient Khotan: Detailed report of archaeological explorations in Chinese Turkestan.

No comments about Travels of a Photographer in China, 1933-1946.