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  • SOCIAL LIFE OF THE CHINESE with some accounts of their RELIGIOUS, GOVERNMENTAL, EDUCATIONAL AND BUSINESS CUSTOMS AND OPINIONS Volume II

    by Justus DOOLITTLE ...
    This book contains a dynamic table of contents.Preview:The Chinese year contains thirteen or twelve months, according as it has or has not an intercalary month. Consequently the great annual periods, as the winter solstice or vernal equinox, do not fall in successive years on the same day of the same month. Generally, in five successive years there are two intercalary months ; or, more exactly, in ... Read more

    $1.18 USD

  • SOCIAL LIFE OF THE CHINESE, with some accounts of their religious, governmental, educational and business customs and opinions Volume I

    by Justus DOOLITTLE ...
    This book contains a dynamic table of contents. Preview: The population of the city and suburbs has never been accurately, and therefore satisfactorily ascertained. The inhabitants of the seven suburbs are believed to be as numerous as the inhabitants of the city itself. The population of both has been estimated by residents and visitors at all figures, from 600,000 to 1,250,000. Including the ... Read more

    $1.18 USD

  • Social Life Of The Chinese

    Daily Life in China

    by Justus Doolittle ...
    First Published in 2005. This is the most complete and detailed account of the traditional domestic and daily life of the Chinese in the mid-nineteenth century. Writing in the 1860's, Doolittle concentrates on social and religious customs, revealing the people through their practices and material culture which he observed for over fourteen years. Colourful, exotic and compelling, this is a more ... Read more

    $265.00 USD

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  • The Civilization of China

    by Herbert Allen Giles ...
    The aim of this work is to suggest a rough outline of Chinese civilization from the earliest times down to the present period of rapid and startling transition. ... Read more

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  • Manners and Customs of the Japanese in Nineteenth Century

    From the Accounts of Dutch Residents in Japan and from the German Work of Dr. Philipp Franz von Siebold

    by Philipp Franz von Siebold Ph.D. ...
    Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century is a delightful account of the Japanese of Tokugawa Japan.This unique handbook of Japanese manners, customs, history, and singular happenings was published in New York in 1841. Based on the firsthand observations of Dr. Philipp Franz von Siebold of the Dutch trading port Deshima in the years 1823-29, as well as on Spanish, Portuguese, ... Read more

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  • Chinese Characteristics

    by Smith Arthur H. ...
    Arthur Smith was one of the top Sinologists of the late 19th century and early 20th century, and Chinese Characteristics is the book which best synthesizes his opinions on Chinese culture and society. He spent more than 50 years in China as a missionary and his opinions range from insightful and profound to inappropriate and ridiculous, but even the sections of the book that today seem to reflect ... Read more

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  • History of Japanese Literature

    by William George Aston ...
    Professor Aston's A History of Japanese Literature has a permanent place on the bookshelves of all lovers of Japan. William George Aston, who pioneered in the translation of Japanese literature into English, made many original contributions to Japanese studies. His writing is fresh and informative.The periods reviewed range from the ancient days, when Japan's history was just dawning, to the Meiji ... Read more

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  • Through China with a Camera

    by John Thomson ...
    Originally published in 1898. INTRODUCTION: Since the time when I made my first journey into Cambodia to examine its ancient cities, it has been my constant endeavour to show how the explorer may add not only to the interest but to the permanent value of his work by the use of photography. To those of my readers interested in photography I may add a note on my method of working. All my negatives ... Read more

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  • Select Chinese Folk-Lore and Fairy Tales

    by Various Authors ...
    One day in the early dawn, a distinguished mandarin was leaving the temple of the City God. It was his duty to visit this temple on the first and fifteenth of the moon, whilst the city was still asleep, to offer incense and adoration to the stern-looking figure enshrined within. This mandarin was Shih-Kung, and a juster or more upright official did not exist in all the fair provinces of the Empire ... Read more

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  • The Life of Ancient Japan

    Selected Contemporary Texts Illustrating Social Life and Ideals before the Era of Seclusion

    by Kurt Singer ...
    First Published in 2002. This book looks at the small groups of Japanese people who were perpetually endangered by foreign invasions, actual and potential, and even more by the disruptive forces of their own ambitious kith and kin. These people were scattered over a number of islands, each again divided by mountain ranges into a set of island-like districts, and they lived and enjoyed a perilous ... Read more

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  • Things Japanese

    Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan

    by Basil Hall Chamberlain ...
    Series series Stone Bridge Classics
    An early account of Japan's culture and customs, already vanishing as Japan lept into modernity in the late 20th century.Basil Hall Chamberlain left Britain after suffering a nervous breakdown. His destination: a Japan no less than 5 years into the Meiji period. There he studied the Japanese language and worked as a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University. Things Japanese, written like a ... Read more

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