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- catalog abstract "This exciting story of personal adventure is drawn from the author's experience living for thirty-two years as a trader in China. It was in 1905 that A. H. Rasmussen, a young Norwegian sailor, "swallowed the anchor" in Hong Kong and joined the Imperial Maritime customs. His first assignment took him 150 miles up the Yangtze river to the remote trading outpost of Chinkiang. Here he was initiated into life on one of the small British concessions scattered throughout China, where foreigners were allowed to live and trade. In these isolated establishments a handful of men - some of them able, others misfits - struggled to preserve the peace and their sanity in a weird atmosphere of danger, misery, and stifling heat. But for the adventurous minded, this life had its compensations. There were exciting hunting expeditions into the hills in search of wild boar, the toughest, wiliest creatures on the face of the earth; daring pursuits of salt smugglers and pirates in the Yangtze estuary; and constant skirmishes with ruthless bandits. And when Mr. Rasmussen mastered the intricate Chinese tongue and was offered a job representing a foreign firm in Chinkiang he found himself immersed in all the luxury the Orient affords. No longer could he walk down the crowded streets of the Concession but he must ride in state in his sedan chair, borne by his four chair bearers garbed in the firm's colors and wearing red-tasseled mandarin hats. His years amid the teeming street and harbor life of China took Mr. Rasmussen through bloody revolutions and massacres as head of an ambulance unit; up remote rivers deep into the interior; to the camp of a Mongul chieftain, and finally as a wool trader to Tientsin, a miniature modern city in North China. China Trader is a vivid portrayal of what he has done and seen - the adventure and intrigue, danger and glamour, famine and fascination that make up the Orient. -- from book jacket.".
- catalog contributor b8923812.
- catalog coverage "China Commerce.".
- catalog coverage "China Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "[1954]".
- catalog date "1954".
- catalog date "[1954]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1954]".
- catalog description "This exciting story of personal adventure is drawn from the author's experience living for thirty-two years as a trader in China. It was in 1905 that A. H. Rasmussen, a young Norwegian sailor, "swallowed the anchor" in Hong Kong and joined the Imperial Maritime customs. His first assignment took him 150 miles up the Yangtze river to the remote trading outpost of Chinkiang. Here he was initiated into life on one of the small British concessions scattered throughout China, where foreigners were allowed to live and trade. In these isolated establishments a handful of men - some of them able, others misfits - struggled to preserve the peace and their sanity in a weird atmosphere of danger, misery, and stifling heat. But for the adventurous minded, this life had its compensations. There were exciting hunting expeditions into the hills in search of wild boar, the toughest, wiliest creatures on the face of the earth; daring pursuits of salt smugglers and pirates in the Yangtze estuary; and constant skirmishes with ruthless bandits. And when Mr. Rasmussen mastered the intricate Chinese tongue and was offered a job representing a foreign firm in Chinkiang he found himself immersed in all the luxury the Orient affords. No longer could he walk down the crowded streets of the Concession but he must ride in state in his sedan chair, borne by his four chair bearers garbed in the firm's colors and wearing red-tasseled mandarin hats. His years amid the teeming street and harbor life of China took Mr. Rasmussen through bloody revolutions and massacres as head of an ambulance unit; up remote rivers deep into the interior; to the camp of a Mongul chieftain, and finally as a wool trader to Tientsin, a miniature modern city in North China. China Trader is a vivid portrayal of what he has done and seen - the adventure and intrigue, danger and glamour, famine and fascination that make up the Orient. -- from book jacket.".
- catalog extent "274 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "China trader.".
- catalog isFormatOf "China trader.".
- catalog issued "1954".
- catalog issued "[1954]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Crowell".
- catalog relation "China trader.".
- catalog spatial "China Commerce.".
- catalog spatial "China Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "915.1".
- catalog subject "DS721 .R29".
- catalog subject "Rasmussen, A. H. (Albert Henry), 1883-1972.".
- catalog subject "Rasmussen, Albert Henry.".
- catalog title "China trader.".
- catalog type "text".