The face of China, travels in East, North, Central and Western China; with some account of the new schools, universities, missions, and the old religious sacred places of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism . hrubs,232Village schools, 23, 24 \A7AI wupu, 258VV Wan Yen Sz, 186, 187Wangs village, 19-23Wanhsien, 144War, Ministry of, 85Wei-hai-wei, 71Weihsien, 16, 17Wesleyan mission, 210Wheelbarrow travelling, 20White wax insects, 183, 210Willow pattern, 5Worship, earliest form in China, Wu, Lord, 42Wu Chang, 115 YELLOW River, Ch. viii., 109 Yuan Shih Kai, 71, 258Yung Chang Fu, 245Yunnan, province,
The face of China, travels in East, North, Central and Western China; with some account of the new schools, universities, missions, and the old religious sacred places of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism . hrubs,232Village schools, 23, 24 \A7AI wupu, 258VV Wan Yen Sz, 186, 187Wangs village, 19-23Wanhsien, 144War, Ministry of, 85Wei-hai-wei, 71Weihsien, 16, 17Wesleyan mission, 210Wheelbarrow travelling, 20White wax insects, 183, 210Willow pattern, 5Worship, earliest form in China, Wu, Lord, 42Wu Chang, 115 YELLOW River, Ch. viii., 109 Yuan Shih Kai, 71, 258Yung Chang Fu, 245Yunnan, province, Ch. , Ch. xx. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson &> &•» London is^pori PJBO .^ 3UJDV // siip luojj djbd am || ! 9AOU19J \\ \\\\ JOU OQ ^ oinohoi jo kimmm. NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY . 1909 rights reserved THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE FRIEND TO WHOSE SUGGESTION AND ENCOURAGEMENTIT OWES ITS EXISTENCE PRINCIPAL MARCUS DODS, D. PREFACE EVERY intelligent person that I have metwhose good fairy has led him to the CelestialEmpire has fallen under the spell of thatmarvellous people and marvellous land. I am firedwith the ambition to cast that spell even on thosewho have never been there, by showing them asaccurately and vividly as I can, with pen and brush,what the face of China actually is. People may describe with success the soul of apeople, provided it is sufficiently near the surface,but the foreigner who has known and loved Chinafor a lifetime would be the first to repudiate thepossibility of doing this in the case of China. Iwould rather take Brownings view— Nor soul helpsbody more than body soul—and try to set downfaithfully the things I have seen, that they may leadothers to study China for themselves. It may be objefted that
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