1);' attempting even a slight sketch of China, its physical featurcs, or somc of thc manners and cllstoms of the Yariolls peoples whom we designate broadly as the Chinese, the writer is confronted with thc difficulty of its immensity. The continuolls territory in Asia oyer which China rules or exercises a suzcrainty is o,'er 4-.200.000 square miles, but China Propcr, excluding ~Ianchllria, llongolia, Tibct, and Tllrke~tan, consists of eighteen provinccs, cO'ering an arca of 1,:5:30,000 square miles, with a population of about 4-10,000,000, or about twch'c and a half timcs the area of thc Unitcd Kingdom, and ten timcs its populatioIl. This arca is houndcd on the west by southcrn splIrs from the giallt 1ll00mtaill rcglOlls ot' Eastcl'll
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CONTENTS; CIL-PTEH I; Description of China; Her Early History; Tartar Garrisons;; Chinese Soldiers; Family Life; Power of Parents; FootBinding; ~Iarriage Customs; Ancestral Halls; Official Hierarchy;; Competitive Examinations; Taxation; Punishments; Torture;; PAGE; Story of Circulllstantial Evidence 15; CHA lYfEH III; Gradations of Chinese Society; Agriculture; Fung Sui "; Pawn Offices; Itiver Boats and Junks; The Bore at Haining;; Fishing I nd lIstry; Piracy un It i vel's; Li H lIlIg Chang; The; West River; Temples of the Seven Star Hills; Howlick 33; The Yangtze; Opium; Cunclusiuns of Singapore Commission;; British and Gennan Trade in the Far East; Town and Country; Life; Chinese Cities; Peking; Temple of Agriculture;; Spring Ceremony of Ploughing by the Emperor and his Court 56; Pe:tsant Cultinltors; Heligious Beliefs; Theatricals; Famine;; Life in Coast Cities; Callton; Guild-Houses; Beggar Guild;; Oflieial Hc{'eption by Viceroy; Chint'se Writillg; Life of; all Oflieial; '; "1'0- CHAPTER VI; Houses of 'Yealthy Inhabitants; Flower-Boats; Refonn; Movement among Chinese 'Yom en ; Shanghai Women's; Convention; Women's Superstitions; Chinese Ladies;; PAGR; Fashi
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CONTENTS; CIL-PTEH I; Description of China; Her Early History; Tartar Garrisons;; Chinese Soldiers; Family Life; Power of Parents; FootBinding; ~Iarriage Customs; Ancestral Halls; Official Hierarchy;; Competitive Examinations; Taxation; Punishments; Torture;; PAGE; Story of Circulllstantial Evidence 15; CHA lYfEH III; Gradations of Chinese Society; Agriculture; Fung Sui "; Pawn Offices; Itiver Boats and Junks; The Bore at Haining;; Fishing I nd lIstry; Piracy un It i vel's; Li H lIlIg Chang; The; West River; Temples of the Seven Star Hills; Howlick 33; The Yangtze; Opium; Cunclusiuns of Singapore Commission;; British and Gennan Trade in the Far East; Town and Country; Life; Chinese Cities; Peking; Temple of Agriculture;; Spring Ceremony of Ploughing by the Emperor and his Court 56; Pe:tsant Cultinltors; Heligious Beliefs; Theatricals; Famine;; Life in Coast Cities; Callton; Guild-Houses; Beggar Guild;; Oflieial Hc{'eption by Viceroy; Chint'se Writillg; Life of; all Oflieial; '; "1'0- CHAPTER VI; Houses of 'Yealthy Inhabitants; Flower-Boats; Refonn; Movement among Chinese 'Yom en ; Shanghai Women's; Convention; Women's Superstitions; Chinese Ladies;; PAGR; Fashi
