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title: 'Lecture on the Chinese Empire'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'William Anderson Scott, Sr.'
date: 1854-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Missions (General)'
- 'History (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 28'
- 'Acts 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/scott-1854-lecture-on-the-chinese-empire
---

# Lecture on the Chinese Empire

1854 lecture surveying the Chinese Empire—its size, population, geography, agriculture, industry and canals—and urging travel, trade and missionaries to correct Western caricatures.

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