Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
CASH, Chinese copper coin with a square hole for stringing. The value of a single cash may be taken as one-thousandth of a Mexican dollar. The cash vary greatly in size. A "string" theoretically consists of a thousand cash, but in many regions has but five hundred. The latter...
There are in India alone over half a million villages. In all Asia, not improbably, there may be four times that number. By far the larger part of the most numerous people on th...
5. PART IIThere is a passage in one of the oldest Chinese Classics, the Book of Odes, which, in describing the palace of an ancient king, shows in a striking light the relative estimation...
6. PART IIIHowever inadequate or imperfect our survey of the life of the Chinese Village may have been, it must at least have shown that it has defects of a serious character. It is theref...
3. PART III--REGENERATION OF THE CHINESE VILLAGECASH, Chinese copper coin with a square hole for stringing. The value of a single cash may be taken as one-thousandth of a Mexican dollar. The cash vary greatly in size. A "stri...
1. PART I.--THE VILLAGE, ITS INSTITUTIONS, USAGES, AND PUBLIC CHARACTERS2. PART II.--VILLAGE FAMILY LIFE