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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRY STATEMENTS
- PRELUDE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
- CHAPTER I ON THE UPPER YANGTSE
- CHAPTER II A LAND JOURNEY
- CHAPTER III LIFE IN A CHINESE CITY
- CHAPTER IV HINDRANCES AND ANNOYANCES
- CHAPTER V CURRENT COIN IN CHINA
- CHAPTER VI FOOTBINDING
- CHAPTER VII ANTI-FOOTBINDING
- CHAPTER VIII THE POSITION OF WOMEN
- CHAPTER IX BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES
- CHAPTER X CHINESE MORALS
- CHAPTER XI SUPERSTITIONS
- CHAPTER XII OUR MISSIONARIES
- CHAPTER XIII UP-COUNTRY SHOPPING AND UP-COUNTRY WAYS
- CHAPTER XIV SOLDIERS
- CHAPTER XV CHINESE STUDENTS
- CHAPTER XVI A FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON
- CHAPTER XVII BUDDHIST MONASTERIES
- CHAPTER XVIII A CHINESE ORDINATION
- CHAPTER XIX THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF OMI
- CHAPTER XX CHINESE SENTIMENT
- CHAPTER XXI A SUMMER TRIP TO CHINESE TIBET
- CHAPTER XXII ARTS AND INDUSTRIES
- CHAPTER XXIII A LITTLE PEKING PUG
- PRELUDE: PART I.—GETTING TO PEKING and PART II.—THE SIGHTS OF PEKING
- CHAPTER I THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S MAGNIFICENCE
- CHAPTER II THE EMPRESS, THE EMPEROR, AND THE AUDIENCE
- CHAPTER III SOLIDARITY, CO-OPERATION, AND IMPERIAL FEDERATION
- CHAPTER IV BEGINNINGS OF REFORM
- CHAPTER V THE COUP D'ÉTAT
CHAPTER IV - HINDRANCES AND ANNOYANCES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- DRY STATEMENTS
- PRELUDE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
- CHAPTER I ON THE UPPER YANGTSE
- CHAPTER II A LAND JOURNEY
- CHAPTER III LIFE IN A CHINESE CITY
- CHAPTER IV HINDRANCES AND ANNOYANCES
- CHAPTER V CURRENT COIN IN CHINA
- CHAPTER VI FOOTBINDING
- CHAPTER VII ANTI-FOOTBINDING
- CHAPTER VIII THE POSITION OF WOMEN
- CHAPTER IX BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES
- CHAPTER X CHINESE MORALS
- CHAPTER XI SUPERSTITIONS
- CHAPTER XII OUR MISSIONARIES
- CHAPTER XIII UP-COUNTRY SHOPPING AND UP-COUNTRY WAYS
- CHAPTER XIV SOLDIERS
- CHAPTER XV CHINESE STUDENTS
- CHAPTER XVI A FATHER'S ADVICE TO HIS SON
- CHAPTER XVII BUDDHIST MONASTERIES
- CHAPTER XVIII A CHINESE ORDINATION
- CHAPTER XIX THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF OMI
- CHAPTER XX CHINESE SENTIMENT
- CHAPTER XXI A SUMMER TRIP TO CHINESE TIBET
- CHAPTER XXII ARTS AND INDUSTRIES
- CHAPTER XXIII A LITTLE PEKING PUG
- PRELUDE: PART I.—GETTING TO PEKING and PART II.—THE SIGHTS OF PEKING
- CHAPTER I THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S MAGNIFICENCE
- CHAPTER II THE EMPRESS, THE EMPEROR, AND THE AUDIENCE
- CHAPTER III SOLIDARITY, CO-OPERATION, AND IMPERIAL FEDERATION
- CHAPTER IV BEGINNINGS OF REFORM
- CHAPTER V THE COUP D'ÉTAT
Summary
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 ill—some very seriously so; and as I thought I was not well either, on hearing that my husband and another gentleman, who had gone for a cure to the sulphur baths about thirteen miles from Chungking, found the people quiet, I decided I would join my husband when his friend left him. The villagers, not the priests, objected to my sleeping in the airy temple, where the gentlemen had been allowed to put up their beds, amongst all the gilded images; so my bed and I and a servant moved down to the inn, where some twelve or fifteen persons assisted at the remaking of the bed in an already sufficiently stuffy room—although, happily, most of the dirty paper was gone from its one window—and being accustomed to the ways up-country, I slept just as well in that filthy inn room as I could have anywhere.
Next day, with a chair and a variety of coolies and boys, we took three photographs, and spent the morning under the shade of a magnificent banyantree in a lonely valley, stuck over with palms as a pincushion is with pins.
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- Intimate ChinaThe Chinese as I Have Seen Them, pp. 98 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1899