INSIDE CANTON.
BY
DR. YVAN.
LONDON:
HENRY VIZETELLY, GOUGH SQUARE.
1858.
NOTE.
As the mode of spelling Chinese words is still undecided among Europeans, each writer on China having a peculiar method of his own, we have thought it best, in the present work, to adhere, with some few exceptions, to the orthography of the French author.
CONTENTS.
The Faï-ting — Chinese Gambling — Quail Fights and Cricket-matches — The Tchou-kiang |
2 |
Life on the River — A Breakfast of Tao-fou — Chinese Milk — The Floating Town — A Chinese Mandarin's House |
24 |
The Tartar Town — The Chinese Tow — The Foreign Factories — The Anglo-Saxon in China — A Chinese Money Tester — Old and New China Streets |
35 |
Physic Street — A Chinese Crowd — A Cantonese Pick-pocket — Beggars and Barbers |
54 |
Chinese Shops — The God of Riches — Chinese Shop-keepers — Chinese Watchmen |
70 |
A Dinner with a Mandarin — Rat, Sweetcakes, and Château-Margaux — The City Inside the Walls — The Government Officials |
77 |
An European Lady Inside Canton — Chinese Charlatans — A Bridal Procession — Tooth-extracting Powder — An Eccentric Vender of Curiosities — Chinese Articles of Vertu |
97 |
The Water City — The Streets of Tankas — The Fishermen's Street — Moveable Houses — "Not at Home" in Canton |
129 |
The Mysteries of the Floating-city — Canton the Abode of Pleasure — Chinese Beauties |
158 |
The Interior of a Mandarin's Mansion — The Women's Apartments — The Printing Office — The Laboratory — The Library — The Emperor's Portrait — Articles of Vertu — Chinese Servants |
180 |
The Mandarin's Wife and her Satellites — The Children — Female Demoralisation — The Mandarin's Mother — Courtezans and Concubines |
201 |
Education and Literature in Canton |
221 |
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