Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back [1901]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
Chapters (497)
- INTIMATE CHINA
- CONTENTS.
- AFFAIRS OF STATE.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- DRY STATEMENTS. (TO BE CARRIED WITH THE READER, IF POSSIBLE.)
- 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!
- CHAPTER I. ON THE UPPER YANGTSE.
- CHAPTER II. A LAND JOURNEY.
- CHAPTER III. LIFE IN A CHINESE CITY.
- CHAPTER IV. HINDRANCES AND ANNOYANCES.
- CHAPTER V. CURRENT COIN IN CHINA.
- CHAPTER VI. FOOTBINDING.
- CHAPTER VII. ANTI-FOOTBINDING.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE POSITION OF WOMEN.
- CHAPTER IX. BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES.
- CHAPTER X. CHINESE MORALS.
- CHAPTER XI. SUPERSTITIONS.
- CHAPTER XII. OUR MISSIONARIES.
- CHAPTER XIII. UP-COUNTRY SHOPPING AND UP-COUNTRY WAYS.
- CHAPTER XIV. SOLDIERS.
- CHAPTER XV. CHINESE STUDENTS.
- CHAPTER XVI. A FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON.
- CHAPTER XVII. BUDDHIST MONASTERIES.
- CHAPTER XVIII. A CHINESE ORDINATION.
- CHAPTER XIX. THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF OMI.
- CHAPTER XX. CHINESE SENTIMENT.
- CHAPTER XXI. A SUMMER TRIP TO CHINESE TIBET.[2]
- CHAPTER XXII. ARTS AND INDUSTRIES.
- CHAPTER XXIII. A LITTLE PEKING PUG.
- AFFAIRS OF STATE. PRELUDE.
- Part I.—Getting to Peking.
- Part II.—The Sights of Peking.
- CHAPTER I. THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S MAGNIFICENCE.
- CHAPTER II. THE EMPRESS, THE EMPEROR, AND THE AUDIENCE.
- CHAPTER III. SOLIDARITY, CO-OPERATION, AND IMPERIAL FEDERATION.
- CHAPTER IV. BEGINNINGS OF REFORM.
- CHAPTER V. THE COUP D'ÉTAT.
- FOOTNOTES
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