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Robert Fortune - A Residence Among the Chinese (1857)

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The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

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Born: September 16, 1812
Died: April 13, 1880 (aged 67)
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