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The Chinese as I have seen them. By Mrs. Archibald Little, Author of _A Marriage in China_
HUTCHINSON & CO. Paternoster Row, London ... 1899
PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY.
Arriving in Shanghai.--My First Tea-season.--Inside a Chinese City.--Shanghai Gardens.--In the Romantic East at last! 1
Boat-travel.--Vegetation.--Trackers.--Terrace of the Sun.--Gold Diamond Mountain.--Meng Liang's Ladder.--Great Szechuan Road.--Steamer Voyage.--Chinese Hades.--Caves 31
Large Farmsteads.--Wedding Party.--Atoning for an Insult.--Rowdy Lichuan.--Old-fashioned Inn.--Dog's Triumphal Progress.--Free Fight.--Wicked Music.--Poppy-fields.--Bamboo Stream 58
Arrangement of a Chinese House.--Crowd in Streets.--My First Walk in Chungking City.--Presents.--Cats, Rats, and Eggs.--Paying a Call.--Ladies Affectionate.--Shocked at European Indecency.--Cost of Freight.--Distance by Post.--Children's Pleasures.--Precautions during Drought.--Guild Gardens.--Pretty Environs.--Opium Flowers, and Smokers.--Babble of Schools.--Chinese Girl-child 74
Sulphur Bath.--Rowdy Behaviour.--Fight in Boat.--Imprisonment for letting to Foreigners.--Book-keeper in Foreign Employ beaten.--Customs Regulations.--Kimberley Legacy.--Happy Consul.--Unjust _Likin_ Charges.--Foreigners massacred.--Official Responsibility 98
Taels.--Dollars.--Exchange.--Silver Shoes.--Foreign Mints 120
Not a Mark of Rank.--Golden Lilies.--Hinds' Feet.--Bandages drawn tighter.--Breaking the Bones.--A Cleft in which to hide Half a Crown.--Mothers sleep with Sticks beside them.--How many die.--How many have all their Toes.--Feet drop off.--Pain till Death.--Typical Cases.--Eczema, Ulceration, Mortification.--General Health affected 134
Church Mission's Action.--American Mission's Action.--T'ien Tsu Hui.--Chinese Ladies' Drawing-room Meeting.--Suifu Appeal.--Kang, the Modern Sage.--Duke Kung.--Appeal to the Chinese People 145