西人中国纪事-中国和中国人

LECTURE ITHE CHINESE LANGUAGEIts Importance— Its Difficulty— The Colloquial— Dialects—“Mandarin”— Absence of Grammar— Illustrations— Pidgin-English—Scarcity of Vocables— The Tones— Coupled Words— The Written Language— The Indicators— Picture Characters— Pictures of Ideas—The Phonetics— Some Faulty AnalysesLECTURE IIA CHINESE LIBRARYThe Cambridge (Eng.) Library— (A) The Confucian Canon—(B) Dynastic History— The “Historical Record”— The “Mirror of History”— Biography— Encyclopædias— 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 ClassicsLECTURE IIIDEMOCRATIC CHINAThe Emperor— Provincial Government— Circuits— Prefectures—Magistracies— Headboroughs— The People— The Magistrate— Other Provincial Officials— The Prefect— The Intendant of Circuit (Taot‘ai)—Viceroy and Governor— Taxation— Mencius on “the People”— Personal Liberty— New Imposts— Combination—IllustrationsLECTURE IVCHINA AND ANCIENT GREECERelative Values of Chinese and Greek in Mental and Moral Training— Lord Granville— Wên T’ien-hsiang— Han Yü— An Emperor— A Land of Opposites— Coincidences between Chinese and Greek Civilisations— The Question of Greek Influence— GreekWords in Chinese— Coincidences in Chinese and Western Literature—Students of Chinese wantedLECTURE VTAOISMReligions in China— What is Tao?— Lao Tz?— The Tao Tê Ching—Its Claims— The Philosophy of Lao Tz?— -Developed by Chuang Tz?— 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 ofTao— Its Last StateLECTURE VISOME CHINESE MANNERS AND CUSTOMSOrigin 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— TheChinaman a Mystery— Customs vary with Places— Dog’s Flesh—Substitutes at Executions— Doctors— ConclusionINDEX