Leaves from My Chinese Scrapbook

ISBN-13: 9780415244848 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 228 str.

F. Balfour

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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Part 1 Leaves from my Chinese Scrapbook.; Chapter 1 The First Emperor.*Authorities consulted:—The Slih Chi; the T‘ung Ch‘en; the Kok Shi Riak; the T‘ai P‘ing Kuang Chi; Mémoires concernant les Chinois; and Histoire de la Chine.; Chapter 2 The Empress Regent.; Chapter 3 The Fifth Prince.; Chapter 4 A Phase of Court Etiquette.; Chapter 5 Filial Piety.; Chapter 6 Chinese Ideas of Pathology.; Chapter 7 Chinese Medicines.; Chapter 8 The Horse in China.; Chapter 9 Hippophagy Among the Tartars.; Chapter 10 A Philosopher who Never Lived.; Chapter 11 Taoist Hermits.; Chapter 12 A Taoist Patriarch.; Chapter 13 The Peach and its Legends.; Chapter 14 Tree and Serpent Worship.; Chapter 15 The Sophists of China.; Chapter 16 Portents.; Chapter 17 Feather-Brushes.; Chapter 18 The Seven Wonders of Corea.; Chapter 19 China's Greatest Tyrant.; Chapter 20 The Flower-Fairies: A Taoist Fairy-Tale.;

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Frederic Henry Balfour