"Albert Smith, humorist, novelist, playwright, friend of Dickens and Barnum, was one of the great entertainers of the Victorian age and one of its most popular comic authors. Today Albert Smith's writings are no longer read, his books out of print,...But the little diary he published about his journey to China is still highly readable -- fresh, nicely observed, funny, a level-headed account of a country and people most Europeans once found very strange..." -- from the Introduction. Originally published in 1859.

To China and Back: Being a Diarty Kept Out and Home

Smith, Albert; Lethbridge, Henry James, introduction

Hong Kong University Press

1974

2007.066.480