The 2nd book in the CER Classics series, was first published in 1911. In this book, Author Dingle recounts his adventures as he travels up the Yangtze River from Shanghai and then by foot southwest across some of China's most wild and woolly territory to Burma. All the way, Dingle absorbed an enormous amount of life and society in southwest China, and describes what he sees in a readable and sensitive way.

"Dingle stands in the great tradition of the gentleman explorers of China for whom the experience was everything, preparation was minimal and caution invariably thrown to the wind. Thankfully he recorded his exploits for us to share." Paul French - author of Carl Crow, a Tough Old China Hand

Who is Edwin John Dingle?
Edwin Dingle was English, a journalist and publisher. He was born in 1881 and in the early 1900s was working in Singapore as a journalist, then he travels up the Yangtze River from Shanghai and then by foot southwest across some of China's most wild and woolly territory to Burma. Dingle was in Shanghai in the early 1920s, and was the proprietor and presumably founder of China and Far East Finance and Commerce, the predecessor publication of the Far Eastern Economic Review. But in the mid-1920s, he headed to the United States, and wrote a number of books including one called Your Sex Life: Womanhood, Manhood, Marriage. An Inspirational Treatise On Sexology And Parenthood And Divorce. He founded his own health and sex cult in 1927 around the concept of Mental physics, which kept him occupied until the ripe old age of 91 in a world far away from the one found in this book.