Home life in China /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Headland, Isaac Taylor, 1859-1942 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Routledge revivals.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Introductory
  • 2. Children and child-life
  • 3. School life of children
  • 4. Education of the poor
  • 5. Rules of behaviour for children
  • 6. Girls
  • 7. The classic for girls
  • 8. Marriage
  • 9. Women
  • 10. Housewives
  • 11. Motherhood
  • 12. Concubinage
  • 13. Religion
  • 14. Family ceremonies
  • 15. Marriage ceremonies
  • 16. Funeral ceremonies
  • 17. Ancestor-worship
  • 18. Servants
  • 19. Food
  • 20. Shops and markets
  • 21. Expense of living
  • 22. Travel : inns and restaurants
  • 23. Summer resorts
  • 24. How the poor live
  • 25. Peasant life
  • 26. Oddities of every-day life
  • 27. Chinese names and nicknames
  • 28. Chinese superstitions
  • 29. Chinese humour
  • 30. The unscientific Chinese
  • 31. Dress and hospitality
  • 32. Doing things backward
  • 33. Recent changes in home life.