The face of China

Chapter 3: NOTE

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The narrative records travels through eastern, northern, central, and western China, presenting vivid descriptive sketches and illustrations of cities, villages, landscapes, and transport routes. It treats industry and daily life, including silk, tea, railways, canals, and river navigation, and describes sacred sites and practices associated with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. The author visits schools, missions, academies, and temples, noting local customs, architecture, and official institutions, and offers practical observations on travel, escorts, and inns. Throughout, the account balances personal impressions with reportage of social and infrastructural change encountered on the journey.

NOTE

There is so little in this volume which is drawn from other sources than personal observation, and information obtained from our Chinese and missionary friends on the spot, that I have thought well not to burden the reader with foot-notes. The various details as to the religions of China are mainly drawn from an interesting little volume by Giles, “Religions of Ancient China,” Smith’s “Uplift of China,” and Hackmann’s “Buddhism as a Religion”; while the account of the railways is from Kent’s “Railway Enterprise in China.”

The spelling of Chinese names is according to the most recent standard map, giving the orthography of the Chinese Imperial Post Office.