The Magic of Malaya (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Cuthbert Woodville Harrison

9780332773827: The Magic of Malaya (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332773825 ISBN 13: 9780332773827

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Hose who are familiar with the bland pervasiveness of the Chinese in the Malay Peninsula will find nothing strange in the existence of Li Wang. He was a Chinese exactly like other Chinese. If you had seen him in a town you had not remarked him had you seen him on a lalang plain you had seen nothing in him if you had seen him cutting up timber in a jungle you had been conscious that there was a Chinese cutting up timber in the jungle and that was the end of it. Nothing remarkable about him - nothing of which to take hold, nothing to make you say, Hullo, there is Li Wang. No, when you saw him you said, There is a Chinaman. Pervasive merely,z.

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