Emily Stehr

Interesting History of Great Wall of China Emily Stehr

Interesting History of Great Wall of ChinaEdmond Plauchut; China and the Chinese; Hurst and Blackett, limted; 1899Edmond Plauchut writes: "The author of this naive eulogy of his own virtues died in 1722, having caught a chill whilst hunting a leopard beyond the Great Wall. As he would himself have wished, his last illness was short; he would have said that his end was peace, and that he had achieved the most difficult of the five things with make up human happiness."