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Quotes from A History of Chinese Literature — Herbert Giles

1845–1935 England

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A Chinese poem is at best a hard nut to crack.

A History of Chinese Literature (1901)

It would be obviously unfair to describe the Chinese people as wanting in humour simply because they are tickled by jests which leave us comparatively unmoved. Few of our own most amusing stories will stand conversion into Chinese terms.

A History of Chinese Literature (1901)

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