-Table of Contents CONTENTS; CIL-PTEH I; Description of China; Her Early History; Tartar Garrisons;; Chinese Soldiers; Family Life; Power of Parents; FootBinding; ~Iarriage Customs; Ancestral Halls; Official Hierarchy;; Competitive Examinations; Taxation; Punishments; Torture;; PAGE; Story of Circulllstantial Evidence 15; CHA lYfEH III; Gradations of Chinese Society; Agriculture; Fung Sui "; Pawn Offices; Itiver Boats and Junks; The Bore at Haining;; Fishing I nd lIstry; Piracy un It i vel's; Li H lIlIg Chang; The; West River; Temples of the Seven Star Hills; Howlick 33; The Yangtze; Opium; Cunclusiuns of Singapore Commission;; British and Gennan Trade in the Far East; Town and Country; Life; Chinese Cities; Peking; Temple of Agriculture;; Spring Ceremony of Ploughing by the Emperor and his Court 56; Pe:tsant Cultinltors; Heligious Beliefs; Theatricals; Famine;; Life in Coast Cities; Callton; Guild-Houses; Beggar Guild;; Oflieial Hc{'eption by Viceroy; Chint'se Writillg; Life of; all Oflieial; '; "1'0- CHAPTER VI; Houses of 'Yealthy Inhabitants; Flower-Boats; Refonn; Movement among Chinese 'Yom en ; Shanghai Women's; Convention; Women's Superstitions; Chinese Ladies;; PAGR; Fashions; Visiting 100; CHAPTER VII; General Description of Hong Kong; Happy Valley; Peak; District; Night View of Harbour; Typhoon; Energy of; Survivors; The Streets; Early Morning Life of the City;; Chinese Workmen; The Barber; The Sawyer; The Stonecutter;; The Coolie; Gambling; Some Street Games; CHAPTER VIII; Dragon-Boat Races; Festival at Macao; New Year; New; Year Customs; Hong Kong Races; Curious Forms of; Gambling; Charitable Institutions of Hong Kong; The; III; Future of China 1 ~6; viAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Boo