North China Daily News & Herald Ltd., Shanghai, 1909. 1 volume in-8, (14)-308 pp., rebound in modern brown leather, fully illustrated with a frontispice and 27 photographic plates, a very good copy.
Contents: The Land and its Laws - How the Empire is Governed - The Chinese Military System - The Chinese Classics - Schools and Schoolmasters - Ancestor Worship - Fengshui - The Spokesman of the Gods - The Temple of the Emperor of the City - Mountain Temples - Punishments - Lynch Law - Doctors and Doctoring - Money and Money Lending - Plays and PLays Actors - A Ramble through a Chinese City - River Life in CHina - Home and Family Life - Farmers and Farming - HIghways and Byways - Beggars - "Face" - Peeps ito Chinese Life
North China Daily News & Herald Ltd., Shanghai, 1909. 1 volume in-8, (14)-308 pp., rebound in modern brown leather, fully illustrated with a frontispice and 27 photographic plates, a very good copy.
Contents: The Land and its Laws - How the Empire is Governed - The Chinese Military System - The Chinese Classics - Schools and Schoolmasters - Ancestor Worship - Fengshui - The Spokesman of the Gods - The Temple of the Emperor of the City - Mountain Temples - Punishments - Lynch Law - Doctors and Doctoring - Money and Money Lending - Plays and PLays Actors - A Ramble through a Chinese City - River Life in CHina - Home and Family Life - Farmers and Farming - HIghways and Byways - Beggars - "Face" - Peeps ito Chinese Life