The Orient Explorer Collection

For readers interested in early China depicted by women travellers in early 20th century. The boxset focuses on the theme "Women Writers" and features seven books written by women from various walks of life, including:

With the Empress Dowager - by Katharine A. Carl, 1905 A Woman in China - by Mary Gaunt, 1914 My Chinese Days - by Gulielma F. Alsop, 1918 Pagoda Shadows: Studies from Life in China - by Adele M. Fielde, 1885 Daughters of China: Sketches of Domestic Life in the Celestial Empire - by Eliza J. Gillett Bridgman, 1953 Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them - by Mrs. Archibald Little, 1899 China: The Long-Lived Empire - by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, 1900

Each volume of the collection is to reignite interest and also to allow readers to explore how these books relate to the region today.