Category: Travel Writing
Arrangement of a Chinese House.--Crowd in Streets.--My First Walk in Chungking City.--Presents.--Cats, Rats, and Eggs.--Paying a Call.--Ladies Affectionate.--Shocked at European Indecency.--Cost of Freight.--Distance by Post.--Children's Pleasures.--Precautions during Drought....
Arrangement of a Chinese House.--Crowd in Streets.--My First Walk in Chungking City.--Presents.--Cats, Rats, and Eggs.--Paying a Call.--Ladies Affectionate.--Shocked at European...
4. CHAPTER IV.Sulphur Bath.--Rowdy Behaviour.--Fight in Boat.--Imprisonment for letting to Foreigners.--Book-keeper in Foreign Employ beaten.--Customs Regulations.--Kimberley Legacy.--Happy C...
5. CHAPTER V.6. CHAPTER VI.Not a Mark of Rank.--Golden Lilies.--Hinds' Feet.--Bandages drawn tighter.--Breaking the Bones.--A Cleft in which to hide Half a Crown.--Mothers sleep with Sticks beside them.--...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER X.11. CHAPTER XI.12. CHAPTER XII.13. CHAPTER XIII.14. CHAPTER XIV.15. CHAPTER XV.16. CHAPTER XVI.17. CHAPTER XVII.18. CHAPTER XVIII.19. CHAPTER XIX.20. CHAPTER XX.21. CHAPTER XXI.Drying Prayerbooks Mountain.--Boys' Paradise.--Lolo Women.--Salt-carriers.--Great Rains.--Brick-tea Carriers.--Suspension Bridge.--Granite Mountains.--Tibetan Bridge.--Lamas.--T...
22. CHAPTER XXII.23. CHAPTER XXIII.24. PART I.--GETTING TO PEKING.25. PART II.--THE SIGHTS OF PEKING.26. CHAPTER I.The Emperor at the Temple of Heaven.--Mongol Princes wrestling.--Imperial Porcelain Manufactory.--Imperial Silk Manufactory.--Maids of Honour.--Spring Sacrifices.--Court of Feas...
27. CHAPTER II.A Concubine no Empress.--Sudden Deaths.--Suspicions.--Prince Chʽün.--Emperor's Education.--His Sadness.--His Features.--Foreign Ministers' Audience.--Another Audience.--Crowding...
28. CHAPTER III.Everybody guaranteed by Somebody Else.--Buying back Office.--Family Responsibilities.--Guilds.--All Employés Partners.--Antiquity of Chinese Reforms.--To each Province so many P...
29. CHAPTER IV.Reform Club.--Chinese Ladies' Public Dinner.--High School for Girls.--Chinese Lady Doctors insisting on Religious Liberty.--Reformers' Dinner.--The Emperor at the Head of the Re...
30. CHAPTER V.Kang Yü-wei.--_China Mail's_ Interview.--Beheading of Reformers.--Relatives sentenced to Death.--Kang's Indictment of Empress.--Empress's Reprisals.--Emperor's Attempt at Escape...
31. civil. I should not care to hear the shower of abuse, that would greeta foreigner in one of our English towns, who turned over and examined all the articles on a stall, then went away without buying anything, as English people do not hesitate to d...
32. CHAPTER I.Of all ways of travel, surely boat-travel is the most luxurious. For one thing, it is accounted roughing it; and that means that there is no bother about toilets: the easiest bo...
33. CHAPTER II.It is very unusual to make the journey from Ichang to Chungking by land; but one year in the spring-time the thought of the dog-roses and the honeysuckle tempted us, as also the...
34. CHAPTER III.Arrangement of a Chinese House.--Crowd in Streets.--My First Walk in Chungking City.--Presents.--Cats, Rats, and Eggs.--Paying a Call.--Ladies Affectionate.--Shocked at European...
35. CHAPTER IV.As an illustration of the position of Europeans up-country, I will relate very briefly the trivial events of two days. First I must say that nearly every woman in the place was...
36. CHAPTER V.She was not long out from England, and a _comprador_ order was as yet an unnatural phenomenon to her. She supposed it was something like a cheque upon a bank, or a circular note...
37. CHAPTER VI.Not a Mark of Rank.--Golden Lilies.--Hinds' Feet.--Bandages drawn tighter.--Breaking the Bones.--A Cleft in which to hide Half a Crown.--Mothers sleep with Sticks beside them.--...
38. CHAPTER VII.To turn to a cheerfuller subject. Although the Roman Catholics, the American Episcopal Church, and some other missionary bodies have in former days thought it wiser to conform t...
39. CHAPTER VIII.A man once quaintly said to me, "Whenever I want to know what men really are, I consider what they have made of their women." We may also learn something by considering what men...
40. CHAPTER IX.In China a bride usually rides in a richly embroidered red sedan-chair, decorated with flowers, and hired for the occasion. Not long ago in Canton city a man hired a chair to ca...
41. CHAPTER X.Missionaries generally say that the Chinese are frightfully immoral. So do the Americans and Australians, excluding them as far as they can from their respective countries. But,...
42. CHAPTER XI.Directly that, leaving behind steamers, railways, _and_ Sundays, you step ashore at Ichang, a thousand miles up the river Yangtse, you find yourself in the land of superstition....
43. CHAPTER XII.People can hardly fairly discuss the question of missionaries without deciding definitely first of all whether they wish the Chinese to become Christians or not. And as I do not...
44. CHAPTER XIII.Before Chinese New Year bargains are to be picked up--in Shanghai lovely embroidered satins, exquisite transparent tortoiseshell boxes, or china of the Ming period. Up-country o...
45. CHAPTER XIV.At Ichang, a thousand miles up the river Yangtse, there is a regiment of soldiers dressed as tigers; but I never could persuade any of the foreign officials to escort me to see...
46. CHAPTER XV.Far more formidable than the soldiery are the literati of China. Soldiering is despised in China; learning is esteemed. The literati also are far more numerous; they arrive in g...
47. CHAPTER XVI.Some extracts from a Chinese father's letters to his son will probably do more to explain what is thought admirable in a Chinese young man than pages of commentary. The son in t...
48. CHAPTER XVII.The country round Ichang has always some special beauty, and in autumn it is the tints, shown to especial advantage on the tallow-trees. But one day we gathered by the wayside l...
49. CHAPTER XVIII.I have attended an ordination in St. John Lateran's at Rome, of which my principal recollection is how the Italian young men wriggled as they all lay flat upon the marble floor...
50. CHAPTER XIX.It was very hot in Chungking in 1892--too hot, we feared, for us to bear, worn out as we were by the emotions and excessive heat of the river journey, entered upon too late in t...
51. CHAPTER XX.It is so much our habit in China to think the Chinese have no sentiment, that I have thought it might be interesting to gather together what indications I have observed during e...
52. CHAPTER XXI.Drying Prayerbooks Mountain.--Boys' Paradise.--Lolo Women.--Salt-carriers.--Great Rains.--Brick-tea Carriers.--Suspension Bridge.--Granite Mountains.--Tibetan Bridge.--Lamas.--T...
53. CHAPTER XXII.Even if I had the knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to write exhaustively of Chinese porcelain in one chapter; but a few shreds of information about it may be new to the...
54. CHAPTER XXIII.He was only six months old when we first knew him, with long silky ears, and a little head covered with delicate yellow down, undeveloped puppy body, but a grand white chest, an...
55. PART I.--GETTING TO PEKING.It was in 1888 we first arrived in Peking, and we felt at once convinced that, whatever wonders it might have to offer, nothing--no! nothing could surpass the wonder of the jour...
56. PART II.--THE SIGHTS OF PEKING.The "sights" of Peking have not been on view of late years. It seems a pity, considering how many people have travelled thither hoping to see them. And yet I am not sure that it...
57. CHAPTER I.The Emperor at the Temple of Heaven.--Mongol Princes wrestling.--Imperial Porcelain Manufactory.--Imperial Silk Manufactory.--Maids of Honour.--Spring Sacrifices.--Court of Feas...
58. CHAPTER II.According to Chinese usage or unwritten law, the concubine of an Emperor can never become Empress-Dowager; yet Tze Hsi, the concubine of the Emperor Hien Fêng, and mother of the...
59. CHAPTER III.Everybody Guaranteed by Somebody Else.--Buying back Office.--Family Responsibilities.--Guilds.--All Employés Partners.--Antiquity of Chinese Reforms.--To each Province so many P...
60. CHAPTER IV.Reform Club.--Chinese Ladies' Public Dinner.--High School for Girls.--Chinese Lady Doctors insisting on Religious Liberty.--Reformers' Dinner.--The Emperor at the Head of the Re...
61. CHAPTER V.Kang Yü-wei.--_China Mail's_ Interview.--Beheading of Reformers.--Relatives sentenced to Death.--Kang's Indictment of Empress.--Empress's Reprisals.--Emperor's Attempt at Escape...