Contents include:
China:
Round the Peak of Hong Kong
Bank-notes for the Other World
Motor-car versus Wheelbarrow
Pilgrimage to China’s Holy Mount
China’s Uncrowned King
Gossiping about the Civil War
“Peiping”
The Revolt of the Rickshaw Coolies
Chinese Women
Guides for Foreigners
The Great Wall
Telephones for Dead Men
Chinese Terms of Abuse
Eating with Chop-Sticks
The Three Enemies of the White Man
Dairen and Port Arthur
The Gate to Manchuria
Port Arthur
Korea
The Land of the Rising Sun
The Yoshiwara of Keijo-Fu
Necromancers
Ladies-in-Waiting
Korean Fatalism
Japan
A Japanese Bath
A Veneer of COurtesy
Kioto – Decline of a Culture
Maitreya Smiles
Old and New Yokyo
“Moschi-Moschi!”
The Great Hell
About the author (from Wikipedia):
Richard Katz (November 21, 1888 – November 8, 1968) was a German journalist, travel writer, and essayist from Bohemia. While writing both grandiose and humble prose, his style is consistently imbued with a sense of humor, humility and love for all things living.
During the period between 1925 and his death, Katz published nearly thirty-five volumes, mostly personally written journalistic travel books. His other areas of interests were animals – specifically dogs – and gardening. Some of his most refreshing works center around the personalities of dogs, and the methods one must employ to be a successful gardener.
