[350] The foreign literature upon this subject is as yet scant and unimportant. Compare the rare and costly Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, etc., from Originals drawn in China by Mr. Chambers, London, 1757, folio; J. M. Callery, De l’Architecture Chinoise, in the Revue d’Architecture; Wm. Simpson, in Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1873-74, p. 33; Notes and Queries on China and Japan.
[351] Wanderings in China, p. 98.
[353] Chinese Repository, Vol. X., p. 473.
[354] Travels in China, p. 96.
[355] Life in China, p. 453.
[356] Voyages à Peking, Tome II., p. 79; Davis’ Sketches, Vol. I., p. 213; Fergusson, Indian and Eastern Architecture, 1876, p. 695; Milne’s Life in China, p. 429 seq.; Chinese Repository, Vol. XIX., pp. 535-540.
[357] Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. I., p. 243.
[358] Compare an article by W. F. Mayers in Notes and Queries on C. and J., Vol. I., pp. 170-173 (with illustrations); Mrs. Gray, Fourteen Months in Canton, passim; Dr. Edkins in Journal N. C. Br. R. A. Soc., Vol. XI., p. 123; Doolittle, Vocabulary, Part III., No. LXVIII; Engineer J. W. King in The United Service, Vol. II., p. 382 (Phila., 1880).
[359] Chinese Repository, Vol. VI., p. 149.
[360] Chinese Repository, Vol. XII., p. 528; Medhurst’s Hohkeën Dictionary, Introduction pp. XXII, XXIII.
[361] Barrow’s Travels, p. 338.
[362] Encyclopædia Americana, Art. Canton.
[363] It is recorded that Hau-Chu, of the Chin dynasty, in the year A.D. 583 ordered Lady Yao to bind her feet so as to make them look like the new moon; and that the evil fashion has since prevailed against all subsequent prohibitions.—Notes and Queries on China and Japan, Vol. II., pp. 27 and 43.
[364] Murray’s China, Vol. II., p. 266. Compare the Chinese Repository, Vol. III., p. 537; Rec. de Mém. de Médecine milit. (Paris), 1862-63-64 passim; Chinese Recorder, Vols. I., II., and III. passim (mostly a series of articles on this subject by Dr. Dudgeon); The Far East, February, 1877, p. 27.
[365] The Jade Chaplet, p. 121.
[366] On Chinese costume, see Wm. Alexander, The Costume of China, illustrated, London, 1805; Mœurs et Coutumes des Chinois et leurs costumes en couleur, par J. G. Grohmann, Leipzig; Breton, China: Its Costume, Arts, etc., 4 vols., translated from the French, London, 1812; another translation is from Auguste Borget, Sketches of China and the Chinese, London, 1842; Illustrations of China and its People. A series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented, by J. Thompson, London, 1874, 4 vols. quarto.
[367] Dr. Hobson mentions a case at Shanghai where he was called upon to examine a child well-nigh dead with spurious hydrocephalus. Upon investigation he found that the nurse, “a young healthy-looking woman, with breasts full of milk to overflowing,” had “been in the habit of selling her milk in small cupfuls to old persons, under the idea of its highly nutritive properties, and was actually poisoning the child dependent on it.” The nurse being promptly changed, the infant recovered almost immediately.—Journal N. C. Br. R. A. Soc. New Series, Vol. I., p. 51.
[368] Archdeacon Gray, China, Vol. II., p. 76.
[369] Mémoires conc. les Chinois, Tome XI., pp. 78 ff. C. C. Coffin in the Atlantic Monthly, 1869, p. 747. Doolittle’s Vocabulary, Part III., No. XVIII. M. Henri Cordier in the Journal des Débats, Nov. 19, 1879. Notes and Queries on C. and J., Vol. II., pp. 11 and 26.
[371] Social Life of the Chinese, Chapters II. and III.; China, Chap. VII.; also Fourteen Months in Canton, by Mrs. Gray.
[372] Chinese Repository, Vols. IV., p. 568, and X., pp. 65-70; Annales de la Foi, No. XL., 1835.
[373] Voyages à Peking, Tome II., p. 283.
[374] Chinese Repository, Vol. I., p. 293.
[375] China, Chap. VII.
[376] Doolittle’s Handbook, Vol. III., p. 660, gives a list of names collected at Fuhchau, which are applicable to other provinces.
[377] Memoir of Dr. Morrison, Vol. II., p. 142.
[378] Chinese Chrestomathy, Chap. V., Sec. 12, p. 182. This phrase is the origin of the word chinchin, so often heard among the Chinese.
[379] Compare the China Review, Vol. IV., p. 400.
[380] Chinese Repository, Vol. XV., p. 433. Book of Records, Part V., Book X., Legge’s translation; also Medhurst’s and Gaubil’s translations.
[381] Nevius, China and the Chinese, pp. 399-408.
[382] A like custom existed among the Hebrews, now continued in the modern mezuzaw. Deut. vi. 9. Jahn’s Archæology, p. 38.
[383] Presbyterian Missionary Chronicle, 1846.
[384] Compare Morrison’s Dictionary under Tsung; Doolittle, Social Life, Vol. II., pp. 55-60; Notes and Queries on China and Japan, Vol. II., p. 157.
[385] Gray’s China (Vol. II., p. 273) contains a cut of a mat theatre from a native drawing. See also Doolittle, Social Life, Vol. II., pp. 292-299.
[386] Chinese as They Are, p. 114.
[387] Chinese Repository, Vol. XIV., p. 335.
[388] Temple Bar, Vol. XLIX., p. 45.
[389] Chinese Repository, Vol. X., p. 106; New York Christian Weekly, 1878.