of rural China at that time are both fascinating and hilarious.





Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits

Bill Porter is the foremost Buddhist scholar and translator of poetry and Buddhist scriptures. This book is an absolute classic,which recalls his experiences visiting and living with Buddhist and Taoist hermits in the remote mountains of Zhong Nan Shan. The Chinese version of this book inspired an entire generation in China, and helped revive the hermit movement in contemporary China.





The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British adventurer became a general in Qing-dynasty China

The Mercenary Mandarin is a well researched and entertaining book which tells the story of William Mesny, a real life Indiana Jones who set off to Shanghai at the age of 18, became a weapons smuggler, and had all kinds ofusual in the financing of automobiles.
The finding, supplemented by the exhibits made a part thereof, describes the situation as follows: The plaintiff is in the automobile financing business. He had filed his schedule of finance charges with the bank commissioner. The defendant sold automobiles and financed the sales with the plaintiff. In the transactions covered by counts two and three, the purchasers of the cars signed conditional sales agreements with the defendant and gave him promissory notes for the balance due on the sales of the cars. It was not disputed that the finance charges reserved in the notes required payments in excess of 12 per cent per annum. The notes and bills of sale were assigned by the defendant to the plaintiff, the notes with recourse. In