Intimate China：The Chinese as I Have Seen Them
Author:Mrs. Archibald Little
Publication date:2016-08-15
ISBN:1160005200153
Language:English
Abstract:
Part memoir, part travelogue, part crusade, Intimate China details the exploits of Alicia Little (Mrs Archibald Little), who first arrived in China as a new bride in 1887. Little was already a prolific writer before her marriage, and this narrative is both compelling and refreshingly frank. Publishe...
Introduction
Part memoir, part travelogue, part crusade, Intimate China details the exploits of Alicia Little (Mrs Archibald Little), who first arrived in China as a new bride in 1887. Little was already a prolific writer before her marriage, and this narrative is both compelling and refreshingly frank. Published in 1899, her account of life in late nineteenth-century China is arranged eclectically, with chapters on 'Superstitions', 'Current coin in China' and 'Hindrances and annoyances' interlaced with descriptions of trips to Tibet and up the Yangtze. The latter third of the book is devoted entirely to politics. Fuelled with a determination to represent the Chinese 'as I have seen them', Little spares no details, supplying descriptions of the complications arising from foot-binding, a practice she found abhorrent and against which she actively campaigned. Extending to over six hundred pages and lavishly illustrated with maps and photographs, this is an extraordinary book.
Book catalogue
COPYRIGHT
1 INTIMATE CHINA
2 CONTENTS.
3 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
4 DRY STATEMENTS. (TO BE CARRIED WITH THE READER, IF POSSIBLE.)
5 PRELUDE. FIRST IMPRESSIONS.
6 CHAPTER I. ON THE UPPER YANGTSE.
7 CHAPTER II. A LAND JOURNEY.
8 CHAPTER III. LIFE IN A CHINESE CITY.
9 CHAPTER IV. HINDRANCES AND ANNOYANCES.
10 CHAPTER V. CURRENT COIN IN CHINA.
11 CHAPTER VI. FOOTBINDING.
12 CHAPTER VII. ANTI-FOOTBINDING.
13 CHAPTER VIII. THE POSITION OF WOMEN.
14 CHAPTER IX. BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES.
15 CHAPTER X. CHINESE MORALS.
16 CHAPTER XI. SUPERSTITIONS.
17 CHAPTER XII. OUR MISSIONARIES.
18 CHAPTER XIII. UP-COUNTRY SHOPPING AND UP-COUNTRY WAYS.
19 CHAPTER XIV. SOLDIERS.
20 CHAPTER XV. CHINESE STUDENTS.
21 CHAPTER XVI. A FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON.
22 CHAPTER XVII. BUDDHIST MONASTERIES.
23 CHAPTER XVIII. A CHINESE ORDINATION.
24 CHAPTER XIX. THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF OMI.
25 CHAPTER XX. CHINESE SENTIMENT.
26 CHAPTER XXI. A SUMMER TRIP TO CHINESE TIBET.[2]
27 CHAPTER XXII. ARTS AND INDUSTRIES.
28 CHAPTER XXIII. A LITTLE PEKING PUG.
29 AFFAIRS OF STATE.
30 PRELUDE.
31 CHAPTER I. THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S MAGNIFICENCE.
32 CHAPTER II. THE EMPRESS, THE EMPEROR, AND THE AUDIENCE.
33 CHAPTER III. SOLIDARITY, CO-OPERATION, AND IMPERIAL FEDERATION.
34 CHAPTER IV. BEGINNINGS OF REFORM.
35 CHAPTER V. THE COUP D'ÉTAT.
36 FOOTNOTES
37
【Log in now】