The Civilization of China
by Herbert Allen Giles
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About this eBook
- Author
- Giles, Herbert Allen, 1845-1935
- Credits
- Produced by John Bickers; Dagny and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- China -- Civilization
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 2076
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2076
- Release Date
- March 26, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE CIVILIZATION OF CHINA
- 2.by HERBERT A. GILES — Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge, And sometime H.B.M. Consul at Ningpo
- 3.Contents
- 4.PREFACE — THE CIVILIZATION OF CHINA
- 5.CHAPTER I—THE FEUDAL AGE
- 6.CHAPTER II—LAW AND GOVERNMENT
- 7.CHAPTER III—RELIGION AND SUPERSTITION
- 8.CHAPTER IV—A.D. 220-1200
- 9.CHAPTER V—WOMEN AND CHILDREN
- 10.CHAPTER VI—LITERATURE AND EDUCATION
- 11.CHAPTER VII—PHILOSOPHY AND SPORT
- 12.CHAPTER VIII—RECREATION
- 13.CHAPTER IX—THE MONGOLS, 1260-1368
- 14.CHAPTER X—MINGS AND CH'INGS, 1368-1911
- 15.CHAPTER XI—CHINESE AND FOREIGNERS
- 16.CHAPTER XII—THE OUTLOOK
- 17.BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 18.Notes on two or three hundred writers of history, philosophy, biography, — 8. Chinese Poetry in English Verse , by H. A. Giles.
- 19.Notes on the lives and works of over three hundred painters of all — 10. Scraps from a Collector's Note-book , by F. Hirth.
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