Category: Travel Writing
Here little China flaunts her scarlet streamers overhead, and flanks her doors with legends in saffron and gold; even its window panes have a foreign look, and within is a glimmering of tinsel, a subdued light, and china lamps flickering before graven images of barbaric hideou...
Here little China flaunts her scarlet streamers overhead, and flanks her doors with legends in saffron and gold; even its window panes have a foreign look, and within is a glimm...
2. Chapter 2Let us turn to pleasanter prospects--the Joss House, for instance, one of the several temples whither the Chinese frequently repair to propitiate the reposeful gods. It is an un...