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Intimate China

by Mrs. Archibald Little

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Author
Little, Archibald, Mrs., 1845-1926
Title
Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them
Credits
Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
Subject
China -- Description and travel
Category
Text
eBook-No.
43456
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43456
Release Date
August 13, 2013
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.INTIMATE CHINA
  2. 2.CONTENTS. — AFFAIRS OF STATE.
  3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  4. 4.DRY STATEMENTS. (TO BE CARRIED WITH THE READER, IF POSSIBLE.)
  5. 5.PRELUDE. FIRST IMPRESSIONS. — I. Arriving in Shanghai. — II. My First Tea-season. — III. Inside a Chinese City. — IV. Shanghai Public Gardens. — V. In the Romantic East at Last!
  6. 6.CHAPTER I. ON THE UPPER YANGTSE.
  7. 7.CHAPTER II. A LAND JOURNEY.
  8. 8.CHAPTER III. LIFE IN A CHINESE CITY.
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV. HINDRANCES AND ANNOYANCES.
  10. 10.CHAPTER V. CURRENT COIN IN CHINA.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI. FOOTBINDING.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII. ANTI-FOOTBINDING.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. THE POSITION OF WOMEN.
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX. BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X. CHINESE MORALS.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI. SUPERSTITIONS.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII. OUR MISSIONARIES.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. UP-COUNTRY SHOPPING AND UP-COUNTRY WAYS.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. SOLDIERS.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV. CHINESE STUDENTS.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. A FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. BUDDHIST MONASTERIES.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. A CHINESE ORDINATION.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF OMI.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XX. CHINESE SENTIMENT.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. A SUMMER TRIP TO CHINESE TIBET. [2]
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. ARTS AND INDUSTRIES.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. A LITTLE PEKING PUG.
  29. 29.PRELUDE. — Part I.—Getting to Peking. — Part II.—The Sights of Peking.
  30. 30.CHAPTER I. THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S MAGNIFICENCE.
  31. 31.CHAPTER II. THE EMPRESS, THE EMPEROR, AND THE AUDIENCE.
  32. 32.CHAPTER III. SOLIDARITY, CO-OPERATION, AND IMPERIAL FEDERATION.
  33. 33.CHAPTER IV. BEGINNINGS OF REFORM.
  34. 34.CHAPTER V. THE COUP D'ÉTAT.
  35. 35.FOOTNOTES

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