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Chinese Sketches

Author:Herbert A. Giles

Publication date:2016-08-15

ISBN:1160003300152

Language:English

Abstract:

An individual's perceptive survey of Chinese society, economics, law and science in the late 19th century...
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Introduction

An individual's perceptive survey of Chinese society, economics, law and science in the late 19th century

Book catalogue

  • COPYRIGHT

    1

  • CHINESE SKETCHES

    2

  • "The institutions of a despised people cannot be judged with fairness."

    3

  • DEDICATION

    4

  • PREFACE

    5

  • CHINESE SKETCHES

    6

  • THE DEATH OF AN EMPEROR

    7

  • THE POSITION OF WOMEN

    8

  • ETIQUETTE

    9

  • ETIQUETTE, NO. II

    10

  • LITERATURE

    11

  • EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE

    12

  • DENTISTRY

    13

  • MEDICAL SCIENCE

    14

  • MEDICAL SCIENCE, NO. II

    15

  • LOAN SOCIETIES

    16

  • GUILDS

    17

  • PAWNBROKERS

    18

  • POSTAL SERVICE

    19

  • SLANG

    20

  • FORTUNE-TELLING

    21

  • GAMES AND GAMBLING

    22

  • JURISPRUDENCE

    23

  • JURISPRUDENCE, NO. II

    24

  • BUDDHIST PRIESTS

    25

  • RESPECT FOR THE WRITTEN CHARACTER

    26

  • SUPERSTITION

    27

  • NATURAL PHENOMENA

    28

  • CELEBRATION OF THE NEW YEAR

    29

  • THE FEAST OF LANTERNS

    30

  • OPIUM SMOKING

    31

  • THIEVING

    32

  • LYING

    33

  • SUICIDE

    34

  • TORTURE

    35

  • FENG-SHUI

    36

  • MONEY

    37

  • A DINNER-PARTY

    38

  • FEMALE CHILDREN

    39

  • TRAVEL

    40

  • PREDESTINATION

    41

  • JOURNALISM

    42

  • FUNERALS

    43

  • INQUESTS

    44

  • INQUESTS, NO. II

    45

  • CHRISTIANITY

    46

  • ANTI-CHRISTIAN LYRICS

    47

  • CONCLUSION

    48

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