Description |
1 online resource (360 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
The Kegan Paul China library
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Kegan Paul China Library.
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Note |
Originally published: New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1899. |
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Includes index. |
Contents |
Part I.---The village, its institutions, usages, and public characters. Chinese village -- Construction of villages -- Village nomenclature -- Country roads -- Village ferry -- Village wells -- Village shop -- Village theatre -- Village schools and traveling scholars -- Chinese higher education---the village high school---examinations---recent educational edicts -- Village temples and religious societies -- Cooperation in religious observances -- Cooperation in religious observances -- Cooperation in markets and fairs -- Cooperative loan societies -- Societies for watching the crops -- Village and city rain-making -- Village hunt -- Village weddings and funerals -- New Year in Chinese villages -- Village bully -- Village headmen. |
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Part II.---Village family life. Village boys and men -- Chinese country girls and women -- Monotony and vacuity of village life -- Unstable equilibrium of the Chinese family -- Instability from family disunity -- Part III.---Regeneration of the Chinese village. What can Christianity do for China? |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Villages -- China.
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Villages. |
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China. |
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China -- Rural conditions.
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Rural conditions. |
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China -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Arthur H., 1845-1932. Village life in China. London ; New York : Kegan Paul ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2004 0710307519 (OCoLC)48629195 |
ISBN |
9781136185953 (electronic book) |
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113618595X (electronic book) |
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0710307519 |
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9780710307514 |
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