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THE TRAVELS
OF LAO C
by Liu E
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
PRESS
Panda Books
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Liu E
The Travels of
Lao Can
Translated by
Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang
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Books
First Edition
2005
ISBN
7-119-03353-0
�½Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China,
2005
Published b)' Foreign Languages Press
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Preface
T
was a native of Dantu in Jiangsu , born in
he author of this novel was called Liu E or Liu Tieyun. He
1857.
He had one
elder brother and three sisters, and his family was one of the ear­
liest to receive Western influence. Liu E was a precocious child
who received the traditional Chinese literary training, but who
also learnt French and mathematics from Catholic priests and
wrote books on geometry, trigonometry and medicine. Eccentric
and brilliant as he was, instead of exerting himself to secure in­
fluential friends and pass the official examinations, he took plea­
sure in scientific studies and made friends with unconventional
individuals or vagabonds•' having a horror of the smooth-spoken,
sycophantic, complacent bureaucracy . For one period when he
was a young man he closed his doors even to his friends, shutting
himself up to study; but since.-his--.iamtly was not wealthy at that
time, even if he had possessed a scholar's temperament he could
not have continued to study at home in comfort, and therefore
he went to Shanghai as a physicia n ; however he was not success­
ful, for he soon turned to business, where he failed again, losing
all his cap1tal but gaining considerable experience of human af-

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