Leaves from my Chinese scrapbook

1887

Contents
I. The first emperor of China p.1
II. The empress regent p.44
III. The fifth prince p.50
IV. A phase of court etiquette p.55
V. Filial piety p.59
VI. Chinese ideas of pathology p.64
VII. Chinese medicines p.68
VIII. The horse in China p.72
IX. Hippophagy among the Tartars p.79
X. A philosopher who never lived p.83
XI. Taoist hermits p.136
XII. A Taoist patriarch p.140
XIII. The peach and its legends p.145
XIV. Tree and serpent worship p.149
XV. The sophists of China p.153
XVI. Portents p.158
XVII. Feather-brushes p.163
XVIII. The seven wonders of Corea p.167
XIX. China's greatest tyrant p.171
XX. The flower-fairies : a Taoist fairy-tale p.176

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