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CHINA

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MORTIMER MENPES

Text by

SIR HENRY ARTHUR BLAKE, G.C.M.G.

London Adam and Charles Black 1909

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
Description of China; Her Early History; Tartar Garrisons;
Chinese Soldiers; Family Life; Power of Parents; Foot-Binding 1

CHAPTER II

Marriage Customs; Ancestral Halls; Official Hierarchy;
Competitive Examinations; Taxation; Punishments; Torture;
Story of Circumstantial Evidence 15

CHAPTER III

Gradations of Chinese Society; Agriculture; _Fung Sui_;
Pawn Offices; River Boats and Junks; The Bore at Haining;
Fishing Industry; Piracy on Rivers; Li Hung Chang; The
West River; Temples of the Seven Star Hills; Howlick 33

CHAPTER IV

The Yangtze; Opium; Conclusions of Singapore Commission;
British and German Trade in the Far East; Town and Country
Life; Chinese Cities; Peking; Temple of Agriculture;
Spring Ceremony of Ploughing by the Emperor and his Court 56

CHAPTER V

Peasant Cultivators; Religious Beliefs; Theatricals; Famine;
Life in Coast Cities; Canton; Guild-Houses; Beggar Guild;
Official Reception by Viceroy; Chinese Writing; Life of
an Official 72

CHAPTER VI

Houses of Wealthy Inhabitants; Flower-Boats; Reform
Movement among Chinese Women; Shanghai Women's
Convention; Women's Superstitions; Chinese Ladies;
Fashions; Visiting 100

CHAPTER VII

General Description of Hong Kong; Happy Valley; Peak
District; Night View of Harbour; Typhoon; Energy of
Survivors; The Streets; Early Morning Life of the City;
Chinese Workmen; The Barber; The Sawyer; The Stonecutter;
The Coolie; Gambling; Some Street Games 111