The Civilization of China
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Chapters (21)(click to expand)
- THE CIVILIZATION OF CHINA
- Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge, And sometime H.B.M. Consul at Ningpo
- PREFACE
- THE CIVILIZATION OF CHINA
- CHAPTER I—THE FEUDAL AGE
- CHAPTER II—LAW AND GOVERNMENT
- CHAPTER III—RELIGION AND SUPERSTITION
- CHAPTER IV—A.D. 220-1200
- CHAPTER V—WOMEN AND CHILDREN
- CHAPTER VI—LITERATURE AND EDUCATION
- CHAPTER VII—PHILOSOPHY AND SPORT
- CHAPTER VIII—RECREATION
- CHAPTER IX—THE MONGOLS, 1260-1368
- CHAPTER X—MINGS AND CH'INGS, 1368-1911
- CHAPTER XI—CHINESE AND FOREIGNERS
- CHAPTER XII—THE OUTLOOK
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Notes on two or three hundred writers of history, philosophy, biography,
- 8. Chinese Poetry in English Verse, by H. A. Giles.
- 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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