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The chief literary sources of Chinese myths are the _Li tai shen hsien t’ung chien_, in thirty-two volumes, the _Shen hsien lieh chuan_, in eight volumes, the _Feng shen yen i_, in eight volumes, and the _Sou shen chi_, in ten volumes. In writing the following pages I have translated or paraphrased largely from these works. I have also consulted and at times quoted from the excellent volumes on Chinese Superstitions by Pere Henri Dore, comprised in the valuable series _Varietes Sinologiques_, published by the Catholic Mission Press at Shanghai. The native works contained in the Ssu K’u Ch’uean Shu, one of the few public libraries in Peking, have proved useful for purposes of reference.
Contents
I. The Sociology of the Chinese II. On Chinese Mythology III. Cosmogony–P’an Ku and the Creation Myth IV. The Gods of China V. Myths of the Stars VI. Myths of Thunder, Lightning, Wind, and Rain VII. Myths of the Waters VIII. Myths of Fire IX. Myths of Epidemics, Medicine, Exorcism, Etc. X. The Goddess of Mercy XI. The Eight Immortals XII. The Guardian of the Gate of Heaven XIII. A Battle of the Gods XIV. How the Monkey Became a God XV. Fox Legends XVI. Miscellaneous Legends
Sku: legendsofchina
The revolution which broke out in China on the 10th October, 1911, and which was completed with the abdication of the Manchu Dynasty on the 12th February, 1912, though acclaimed as highly successful, was in its practical aspects something very different. With the proclamation of the Republic, the fiction of autocratic rule had truly enough vanished; yet the tradition survived and with it sufficient of the essential machinery of Imperialism to defeat the nominal victors until the death of Yuan Shih-kai.
Sku: fightforchina
Too near was I to the subject of this biography to write an impartial introduction. When John Van Nest Talmage went, my last brother went. Stunned until I staggered through the corridors of the hotel in London, England, when the news came that John was dead. If I should say all that I felt I would declare that since Paul the great apostle to the Gentiles, a more faithful or consecrated man has not lifted his voice in the dark places of heathenism. I said it while he was alive, and might as well say it now that he is dead. “He was the hero of our family.” He did not go to a far-off land to preach because people in America did not want to hear him preach.
CONTENTS
I. The Ancestral Home II. Call to China and Voyage Hence III. The City of the “Elegant Gate” IV. The Chiang-chiu Valley V. At the Foot of the Bamboos
Sku: fortyyearschina
The Ruler of the Southern Ocean was Shu (Heedless), the Ruler of the Northern Ocean was Hu (Sudden), and the Ruler of the Centre was Chaos. Shu and Hu were continually meeting in the land of Chaos, who treated them very well. They consulted together how they might repay his kindness, and said, “Men all have seven orifices for the purpose of seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing, while this poor Ruler alone has not one. Let us try and make them for him.” Accordingly they dug one orifice in him every day; and at the end of seven days Chaos died.
I. QUESTIONS II. CHINA BEFORE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY III. CHINA AND THE WESTERN POWERS IV. MODERN CHINA V. JAPAN BEFORE THE RESTORATION VI. MODERN JAPAN VII. JAPAN AND CHINA BEFORE 1914 VIII. JAPAN AND CHINA DURING THE WAR IX. THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE X. PRESENT FORCES AND TENDENCIES IN THE FAR EAST XI. CHINESE AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION CONTRASTED XII. THE CHINESE CHARACTER XIII. HIGHER EDUCATION IN CHINA XIV. INDUSTRIALISM IN CHINA XV. THE OUTLOOK FOR CHINA
Sku: theproblemofchina
It is a very common thing now-a-days to meet people who are going to “China,” which can be reached by the Siberian railway in fourteen or fifteen days. This brings us at once to the question–What is meant by the term China? Taken in its widest sense, the term includes Mongolia, Manchuria, Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, and the Eighteen Provinces, the whole being equivalent to an area of some five million square miles, that is, considerably more than twice the size of the United States of America. But for a study of manners and customs and modes of thought of the Chinese people, we must confine ourselves to that portion of the whole which is known to the Chinese as the “Eighteen Provinces,” and to us as China Proper.
Sku: civilizationofchina
In the saloon bar of a public-house, situated only a few hundred yards from the official frontier of Chinatown, two men sat at a small table in a corner, engaged in earnest conversation. They afforded a sharp contrast. One was a thick-set and rather ruffianly looking fellow, not too cleanly in either person or clothing, and, amongst other evidences that at one time he had known the prize ring, possessing a badly broken nose. His companion was dressed with that spruceness which belongs to the successful East End Jew; he was cleanly shaven, of slight build, and alert in manner and address.
THE DAUGHTER OF HUANG CHOW KERRY’S KID THE PIGTAIL OF HI WING HO THE HOUSE OF GOLDEN JOSS THE MAN WITH THE SHAVEN SKULL THE WHITE HAT TCHERIAPIN THE DANCE OF THE VEILS THE HAND OF THE MANDARIN QUONG THE KEY OF THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN
Sku: talesofchinatown
Philosophical Theory of the Universe.–The problem of the universe has never offered the slightest difficulty to Chinese philosophers. Before the beginning of all things, there was Nothing. In the lapse of ages Nothing coalesced into Unity, the Great Monad. After more ages, the Great Monad separated into Duality, the Male and Female Principles in nature; and then, by a process of biogenesis, the visible universe was produced. Popular Cosmogeny.–An addition, however, to this simple system had to be made, in deference to, and on a plane with, the intelligence of the masses.
Sku: Ancientchina01
As you sit so, in the firelight, your hand is the color of new bronze. I cannot take my eyes from your hand; In it, as in a microcosm, the vast and shadowy Orient is made visible. Who shall read me your hand? You are a large man, yet it is small and narrow, like the hand of a woman and the paw of a chimpanzee. It is supple and boneless as the hands wrought in pigment by a fashionable portrait painter. The tapering fingers bend backward. Between them burns a scented cigarette. You poise it with infinite daintiness, like a woman under the eyes of her lover. The long line of your curved nail is fastidiousness made flesh.
Sku: profilesfromchina
During a stay of some months in China in the year of 1909, I had an opportunity to see something of the educational work for women, and to meet several of the educated women of that interesting country. I was greatly impressed, both by the excellent work done by the students in the schools, and by the useful, efficient lives of those who had completed their course of study. When I returned to America, and spoke of some of the things which the educated women of China were doing, I found that many people were greatly surprised to learn that Chinese women were capable of such achievements.
DR. HUe KING ENG I. CHILDHOOD IN A CHRISTIAN HOME 15 II. EDUCATION IN CHINA AND AMERICA 23 III. BEGINNING MEDICAL WORK IN CHINA 39 IV. THE BELOVED PHYSICIAN 44 V. THE FAVOUR OF THE PEOPLE 58
MRS. AHOK
I. THE MISTRESS OF A HOME OF WEALTH 73 II. WORK AMONG THE WOMEN OF THE UPPER CLASSES 82 III. A JOURNEY TO ENGLAND 90 IV. PATIENT IN TRIBULATION 101
DR. IDA KAHN
I. CHILDHOOD IN THREE COUNTRIES 115 II. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 121 III. SEVEN YEARS IN KIUKIANG 126 IV. PIONEER WORK IN NANCHANG 140
DR. MARY STONE
I. WITH UNBOUND FEET 161 II. THE DANFORTH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 169 III. WINNING FRIENDS IN AMERICA 183 IV. A VERSATILE WOMAN 190 YU KULIANG 221
ANNA STONE
I. EAGER FOR EDUCATION 233 II. AMONG HER OWN PEOPLE 244 III. THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE 254
Sku: notablewomen01
Until within the past ten years a study of Chinese court life would have been an impossibility. The Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the court ladies were shut up within the Forbidden City, away from a world they were anxious to see, and which was equally anxious to see them. Then the Emperor instituted reform, the Empress Dowager came out from behind the screen, and the court entered into social relations with Europeans.
CONTENTS :-
I. THE EMPRESS DOWAGER–HER EARLY LIFE II. THE EMPRESS DOWAGER–HER YEARS OF TRAINING III. THE EMPRESS DOWAGER–AS A RULER IV. THE EMPRESS DOWAGER–AS A REACTIONIST V. THE EMPRESS DOWAGER–AS A REFORMER VI. THE EMPRESS DOWAGER–AS AN ARTIST VII. THE EMPRESS DOWAGER–AS A WOMAN VIII. KUANG HSU–HIS SELF DEVELOPMENT IX. KUANG HSU–AS EMPEROR AND REFORMER X. KUANG HSU–AS A PRISONER XI. PRINCE CHUN–THE REGENT XII. THE HOME OF THE COURT–THE FORBIDDEN CITY XIII. THE LADIES OF THE COURT XIV. THE PRINCESSES–THEIR SCHOOLS XV. THE CHINESE LADIES OF RANK XVI. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THE CHINESE WOMAN XVII. THE CHINESE LADIES–THEIR ILLS XVIII. THE FUNERAL CEREMONIES OF A DOWAGER PRINCESS XIX. CHINESE PRINCES AND OFFICIALS XX. PEKING–THE CITY OF THE COURT XXI. THE DEATH OF KUANG HSU AND THE EMPRESS DOWAGER XXII. THE COURT AND THE NEW EDUCATION
Sku: courtlifeinchina
The Chinese are unquestionably the oldest nation in the world, and their history goes back to a period to which no prudent historian will attempt to give a precise date. They speak the language and observe the same social and political customs that they did several thousand years before the Christian era, and they are the only living representatives to-day of a people and government which were contemporary with the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and the Jews.
I. THE EARLY AGES II. THE FIRST NATIONAL DYNASTY III. A LONG PERIOD OF DISUNION IV. THE SUNGS AND THE KINS V. THE MONGOL CONQUEST OF CHINA VI. KUBLAI AND THE MONGOL DYNASTY VII. THE MING DYNASTY VIII. THE DECLINE OF THE MINGS IX. THE MANCHU CONQUEST OF CHINA X. THE FIRST MANCHU RULER XI. THE EMPEROR KANGHI XII. A SHORT REIGN AND THE BEGINNING OF A LONG ONE XIII. KEEN LUNG’S WARS AND CONQUESTS XIV. THE COMMENCEMENT OF EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE XV. THE DECLINE OF THE MANCHUS XVI. THE EMPEROR TAOUKWANG XVII. THE FIRST FOREIGN WAR XVIII. TAOUKWANG AND HIS SUCCESSOR XIX. THE SECOND FOREIGN WAR XX. THE TAEPING REBELLION XXI. THE REGENCY XXII. THE REIGN OF KWANGSU THE WAR WITH JAPAN AND SUBSEQUENT EVENTS THE FUTURE OF CHINA
Sku: china01
The Manchus are descended from a branch of certain wild Tungusic nomads, who were known in the ninth century as the Nu-chens, a name which has been said to mean “west of the sea.” The cradle of their race lay at the base of the Ever-White Mountains, due north of Korea, and was fertilised by the head waters of the Yalu River.
Sku: chinaandthemanchus
The earliest remains of primitive man probably will be found somewhere in the vast plateau of Central Asia, north of the Himalaya Mountains. From this region came the successive invasions that poured into Europe from the east, to India from the north, and to China from the west; the migration route to North America led over the Bering Strait and spread fanwise south and southeast to the farthest extremity of South America. The Central Asian plateau at the beginning of the Pleistocene was probably less arid than it is today and there is reason to believe that this general region was not only the distributing center of man but also of many of the forms of mammalian life which are now living in other parts of the world. For instance, our American moose, the wapiti or elk, Rocky Mountain sheep, the so-called mountain goat, and other animals are probably of Central Asian origin.
Sku: campsandtrailsinchina
Beginning of dated history–Size of ancient China–Parcelled out into fiefs–Fiefs correspond to modern _hien_ districts– Mesne lords and sub-vassals–Method of migration and colonizing– Course of the Yellow River in 842 B.C.–Distant fiefs in Shan Tung and Chih Li provinces of to-day–A river which subsequently became part of the Grand Canal–The Hwai River system of waters– Europeans always regard China from the sea inwards–Corea, Japan, and Liao Tung unknown in 842 B.C. except, perhaps, to the vassal state in Peking plain–Orthodox Chinese adopting barbarian usages in Shan Tung–Eastern barbarians on the coast to Shanghai–No knowledge of South or West Asia–Left bank of Yellow River was mostly Tartar, except in South Shan Si–Ancient capital in Shan Si–Ancient colonization of the Wei River valleys in Shen Si– Possibilities of Western ideas having been carried by Tartar horsemen from Persia and Turkestan–Traditions of western, eastern, and southern intercourse previous to 842 B.C.
Sku: ancientchinasimplified
The Whang-poo looked like the Thames, and the Shanghai Bund like the Embankment, when I embarked on board a Jap boat _en route_ for Hankow, and thence to Ichang by a smaller steamer, on a dark, bitterly cold Saturday night, March 6th, 1909. I was to travel fifteen hundred miles up that greatest artery of China. The Yangtze surpasses in importance to the Celestial Empire what the Mississippi is to America, and yet even in China there are thousands of resident foreigners who know no more about this great river than the average Smithfield butcher. Ask ten men in Fleet Street or in Wall Street where Ichang is, and nine will be unable to tell you. Yet it is a port of great importance, when one considers that the handling of China’s vast river-borne trade has been opened to foreign trade and residence since the Chefoo Convention was signed in 1876, that Ichang is a city of forty thousand souls, and has a gross total of imports of nearly forty millions of taels.
Sku: acrosschinaonfoot
There are indeed enough Histories of China already: why yet another one? Because the time has come for new departures; because we need to clear away the false notions with which the general public is constantly being fed by one author after another; because from time to time syntheses become necessary for the presentation of the stage reached by research.
Sku: ahistoryofchina1
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Sku: chowchow
