3 New China Books in the Public Domain 2022 – #1 – Gowen & Hall’s Outline History of China, 1926

Posted: March 14th, 2022 | No Comments »

An Episcopal minister, Dr. Herbert H. Gowen served in the department of Oriental Studies at the University of Washington (UW) teaching from 1909 until 1944. Josef Washington Hall was better known to newspaper rewaders as Upton Close. He was one of the best known correspojndfents in China during the 1920s (see my history of foreign correspodnents, Through the Looking Glass, for more on him).

Outline History of China was published in 1926 by D. Appleton and Company of New York and comes into the public domain this year.

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