-Illustrations--Pidgin-English--Scarcity of Vocables
--The Tones--Coupled Words--The Written Language--The Indicators--
Picture Characters--Pictures of Ideas--The Phonetics--Some Faulty
Analyses ... 3

LECTURE II

A CHINESE LIBRARY

The Cambridge (Eng.) Library--(A) The Confucian Canon--(B) Dynastic
History--The "Historical Record"--The "Mirror of History"--Biography--
Encyclopaedias--How arranged--Collections of Reprints--The Imperial
Statutes--The Penal Code--(C) Geography--Topography--An Old Volume--
Account of Strange Nations--(D) Poetry--Novels--Romance of the Three
Kingdoms--Plays--(E) Dictionaries--The Concordance--Its Arrangement--
Imperial Catalogue--Senior Classics ... 37

LECTURE III

DEMOCRATIC CHINA

The Emperor--Provincial Government--Circuits--Prefectures--Magistracies
--Headboroughs--The People--The Magistrate--Other Provincial Officials--
The Prefect--The Intendant of Circuit (_Tao-t'ai_)--Viceroy and
Governor--Taxation--Mencius on "the People"--Personal Liberty--New
Imposts--Combination--Illustrations ... 73

LECTURE IV

CHINA AND ANCIENT GREECE

Relative Values of Chinese and Greek in Mental and Moral Training--Lord
Granville--Wen T'ien-hsiang--Han Yue--An Emperor--A Land of
Opposites--Coincidences between Chinese and Greek Civilisations--The
Question of Greek Influence--Greek Words in Chinese--Coincidences in
Chinese and Western Literature--Students of Chinese wanted ... 107

LECTURE V

TAOISM

Religions in China--What is Tao?--Lao Tzu--The _Tao Te Ching_--Its
Claims--The Philosophy of Lao Tzu---Developed by Chuang Tzu--His View
of Tao--A Taoist Poet--Symptoms of Decay--The Elixir of Life--Alchemy--
The Black Art--Struggle between Buddhism and Taoism--They borrow from
One Another--The Corruption of Tao--Its Last State ... 141

LECTURE VI

SOME CHINESE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

Origin of the Queue--Social Life--An Eyeglass--Street Etiquette--Guest
and Host--The Position of Women--Infanticide--Training and Education of
Women--The Wife's Status--Ancestral Worship--Widows--Foot-binding--
Henpecked Husbands--The Chinaman a Mystery--Customs vary with Places--
Dog's Flesh--Substitutes at Executions--Doctors--Conclusion ... 175

LECTURE I

THE CHINESE LANGUAGE

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