China

About this eBook

Author

Franck, Harry Alverson, 1881-1962

Title

China : a geographical reader

Original Publication

Dansville: F.A. Owen Pub. Co., 1927.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Readers -- Geography

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 78953

Release Date

June 26, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CHINA A Geographical Reader
2. 2.PUBLISHERS’ FOREWORD
3. 3.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
4. 4.CONTENTS — CHAPTER I CHINA’S PLACE IN THE WORLD — Recent History in China — How China Is Governed
5. 5.CHAPTER II MANCHURIA, THE EASTERN THREE PROVINCES — Queer Sights in Fengtien — Up and Down Manchuria
6. 6.CHAPTER III THROUGH THE GREAT WALL TO PEKING — China a Vast Graveyard — Imperial Tombs — A Manchu Summer Capital
7. 7.CHAPTER IV OUR HOME IN PEKING — Peking Streets and Alleys — Strange Sights in Peking — Walking on the City Wall
8. 8.CHAPTER V SOME QUEER CHINESE CUSTOMS — Skating, Eating and Sleeping — Wedding and Funeral Processions — In a Chinese Theater
9. 9.CHAPTER VI ACROSS MONGOLIA TO URGA — A Night in a Mongol Tent — The Holy Capital of Mongolia
10. 10.CHAPTER VII SHANTUNG, LAND OF CONFUCIUS — A Wheelbarrow Journey — Ancient Shantung — Climbing a Sacred Mountain
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII THROUGH THE HEART OF OLD CHINA — A “Model Governor” — A Dangerous Journey — Cave Dwellers
12. 12.CHAPTER IX THE GREAT MOHAMMEDAN PROVINCE — “Ships of the Desert” — Queer Winter Clothing — Walled Towns — A Land of Peddlers — Sons of Han — Good Mohammedans Do Not Drink Wine
13. 13.CHAPTER X WHERE THE FISH WAGGED ITS TAIL — The Chinese “Fast Mail” — Curiosity about Foreigners — A Difficult Language — Money Strung about the Neck — Silver Dollars Introduced — A Great Walled City — A Midwinter Journey Back to Peking
14. 14.CHAPTER XI CHINA HAS HER OWN WAYS — Feeding the Spirits of the Dead — Many Days of Feasting — Guarding against Evil Spirits — The Hard-working Chinese — “Losing Face”
15. 15.CHAPTER XII THE CHINESE LANGUAGE AND SCHOOLS — A Picture Language — An Easy Yet a Difficult Language — Modern Schools — The Chinese Are Very Intelligent — Work on a New Alphabet
16. 16.CHAPTER XIII FOREIGNERS IN CHINA — Foreigners Make Many Improvements — Foreigners Have Their Own Laws — Thousands of Foreigners in China — Many Mission Schools
17. 17.CHAPTER XIV ALONG THE GREAT YANG-TZE KIANG — Coolies and Rice Fields — Shanghai — Important Cities — On Up the “Son of the Sea” — Living on the Water — The Ever-present Pagoda — Triplet Cities
18. 18.CHAPTER XV DIFFICULT JOURNEYS — Wading along Flooded Roads — Where Chinese Porcelain Is Made — Birds That Catch Fish — Another Trip by Boat and on Foot — Traveling on the Min River
19. 19.CHAPTER XVI DOWN THE SOUTHERN COAST — Some Chinese Are Fine Craftsmen — Different Chinese Dialects — Queer Old Customs — An English Possession in China — The Great City of Canton — Beautiful Things Made in Canton
20. 20.CHAPTER XVII IN THE PROVINCE OF KWANGTUNG — A Visit to Sze Yap — Dangerous Pirates — From the Yang-tze to Canton — China’s Largest Island — The Valuable Bamboo — Down the West River
21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII A SUMMER IN SOUTHWESTERN CHINA — A City in the Clouds — Good and Evil Dragons — Away on a Thousand-Mile Trip — Opium Smokers — Mountain Scenes — One of Many Adventures — The Chinese Make Felt Rugs — Money for Use of Ancestors
22. 22.CHAPTER XIX AMONG THE PRIMITIVE TRIBES — Over the Trail into Kweichow — The Flowery Miao — Flowery Miao Girls Dress Gayly — The I-bien, Nosu, or “Lolos” — On to the Northward — Human Pack Horses
23. 23.CHAPTER XX SZECHUAN, LARGEST OF PROVINCES — Queer Lodgings — Where the Chinese Obtain Salt — On the Plain of Chengtu — In Old Chengtu — I Climb a Sacred Mountain — Homeward Bound!
24. 24.PRONUNCIATION LIST

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