西人中国纪事：中国和中国人（英）

LECTURE I \n

THE CHINESE LANGUAGE \n

Its Importance— Its Difficulty— The Colloquial— Dialects—“Mandarin”— Absence of Grammar— Illustrations— Pidgin-English—Scarcity of Vocables— The Tones— Coupled Words— The Written Language— The Indicators— Picture Characters— Pictures of Ideas—The Phone...

LECTURE II \n

A CHINESE LIBRARY \n

The Cambridge (Eng.) Library— (A) The Confucian Canon—(B) Dynastic History— The “Historical Record”— The “Mirror of History”— Biography— Encyclopædias— How arranged—Collections of Reprints— The Imperial Statutes— The Penal Code—(C) Geography— Topograph...

LECTURE III \n

DEMOCRATIC CHINA \n

The Emperor— Provincial Government— Circuits— Prefectures—Magistracies— Headboroughs— The People— The Magistrate— Other Provincial Officials— The Prefect— The Intendant of Circuit (Taot‘ai)—Viceroy and Governor— Taxation— Mencius on “the People”— Perso...

LECTURE IV \n

CHINA AND ANCIENT GREECE \n

Relative Values of Chinese and Greek in Mental and Moral Training— Lord Granville— Wên T’ien-hsiang— Han Yü— An Emperor— A Land of Opposites— Coincidences between Chinese and Greek Civilisations— The Question of Greek Influence— Greek \n

Words in Chinese— Coincidences in Chinese and Western Literature—Students of Chinese wanted \n

LECTURE V \n

TAOISM \n

Religions in China— What is Tao?— Lao Tz?— The Tao Tê Ching—Its Claims— The Philosophy of Lao Tz?— -Developed by Chuang Tz?— His View of Tao— A Taoist Poet— Symptoms of Decay— The Elixir of Life— Alchemy— The Black Art— Struggle between Buddhism and Ta...

Tao— Its Last State \n

LECTURE VI \n

SOME CHINESE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS \n

Origin of the Queue— Social Life— An Eyeglass— Street Etiquette— Guest and Host— The Position of Women— Infanticide—Training and Education of Women— The Wife’s Status— Ancestral Worship— Widows— Foot-binding— Henpecked Husbands— The \n

Chinaman a Mystery— Customs vary with Places— Dog’s Flesh—Substitutes at Executions— Doctors— Conclusion \n

INDEX