Chinese Sketches
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About This Book
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist, educated at Charterhouse. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system established by Thomas Wade earlier, resulting in the Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. He was a diplomat to China (1867 - 1892). He was British Vice Consul at Pagoda Island (1880-83) and Shanghai (1883-85) and Consul at Tamsui (1885-91) and at Ningpo (1891-93) who later became the second professor of Chinese at Cambridge, succeeding Wade, after living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Postal map spelling is also based on the Wade-Giles system describ...
Chapters (49)
- CHINESE SKETCHES
- "The institutions of a despised people cannot be judged with fairness."
- Spencer's Sociology: The Bias of Patriotism.
- DEDICATION
- To Warren William de la Rue, "As a mark of friendship."
- PREFACE
- CHINESE SKETCHES
- THE DEATH OF AN EMPEROR
- THE POSITION OF WOMEN
- ETIQUETTE
- ETIQUETTE, NO. II
- LITERATURE
- EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE
- DENTISTRY
- MEDICAL SCIENCE
- MEDICAL SCIENCE, NO. II
- LOAN SOCIETIES
- GUILDS
- PAWNBROKERS
- POSTAL SERVICE
- SLANG
- FORTUNE-TELLING
- GAMES AND GAMBLING
- JURISPRUDENCE
- JURISPRUDENCE, NO. II
- BUDDHIST PRIESTS
- RESPECT FOR THE WRITTEN CHARACTER
- SUPERSTITION
- NATURAL PHENOMENA
- CELEBRATION OF THE NEW YEAR
- THE FEAST OF LANTERNS
- OPIUM SMOKING
- THIEVING
- LYING
- SUICIDE
- TORTURE
- FENG-SHUI
- MONEY
- A DINNER-PARTY
- FEMALE CHILDREN
- TRAVEL
- PREDESTINATION
- JOURNALISM
- FUNERALS
- INQUESTS
- INQUESTS, NO. II
- CHRISTIANITY
- ANTI-CHRISTIAN LYRICS
- CONCLUSION
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