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How the Chinese Live

Как живут китайцы

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Adaptation for popular readers, published by Posrednik in 1889, of a book by the Frenchman Gabriel Eugène Simon on the life of Chinese peasants, which Tolstoy presented as an example of a laborious and peaceful life.

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Adaptation of G. Eugène Simon, La Cité chinoise.

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  • Bodde, Derk (con Galia Speshneff Bodde). Tolstoy and China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950; y base de datos China-West de la Universidad de Zúrich (cronología de Tolstói y China: diario de marzo de 1884; Izrechéniia kitáiskogo mudretsa Lao-Tze, Posrédnik, 1910; Tao-Te-King, trad. D. P. Konishi, ed. Tolstói, 1913).

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