# When I was a boy in China

Author: Lee, Yan Phou, 1861-1938?

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74717

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=When+I+was+a+boy+in+China+Lee&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

On a certain day in the year 1861, I was born. I cannot give you the exact date, because the Chinese year is different from the English year, and our months being lunar, that is, reckoned by the revolution of the moon around the earth, are consequently shorter than yours. We reckon time from the accessions of Emperors, and also by cycles of sixty years each. The year of my birth, 1861, was the first year of the Emperor Tung-che. We have twelve months ordinarily; and we say, instead of “January, February,” etc., “Regular Moon, Second Moon, Third Moon,” etc. Each third year is a leap year, and has an extra month so as to make each of the lunar years equal to a solar year. Accordingly, takin...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/when-i-was-a-boy-in-china-74717/chapters/11/index.md)