Home Life in China
eBook - ePub

Home Life in China

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Home Life in China

About this book

Originally published in 1914, this text describes L.T. Headland and his wife's experience in China in the early twentieth century. With a focus on home life this study explores issues such as children, marriage and education as well as food, religion and concubinage as well as presenting anecdotes and personal stories from the families Headland interacted with. This title will be of interest to students of Asian Studies and Anthropology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Frontispiece
  6. Original Title Page
  7. Original Copyright Page
  8. Dedication
  9. Preface
  10. Table of Contents
  11. List of Illustration
  12. I. Introductory
  13. II. Children and Child-Life
  14. III. School Life of Children
  15. IV. Education of the Poor
  16. V. Rules of Behaviour for Children
  17. VI. Girls
  18. VII. The Classic for Girls
  19. VIII. Marriage
  20. IX. Women
  21. X. Housewives
  22. XI. Motherhood
  23. XII. Concubinage
  24. XIII. Religion
  25. XIV. Family Ceremonies
  26. XV. Marriage Ceremonies
  27. XVI. Funeral Ceremonies
  28. XVII. Ancestor-Worship
  29. XVIII. Servants
  30. XIX. Food
  31. XX. Shops and Markets
  32. XXI. Expense of Living
  33. XXII. Travel : Inns and Restaurants
  34. XXIII. Summer Resorts
  35. XXIV. How the Poor Live
  36. XXV. Peasant Life
  37. XXVI. Oddities of Every-day Life
  38. XXVII. Chinese Names and Nicknames
  39. XXVIII. Chinese Superstitions
  40. XXIX. Chinese Humor
  41. XXX. The Unscientific Chinese
  42. XXXI. Dress and Hospitality
  43. XXXII. Doing Things Backward
  44. XXXIII. Recent Changes in Home Life
  45. Index