. Peking : a social survey conducted under auspices of the Princeton University Center in China and the Peking Young Men's Christian Association. nd working with a few simple tools,make dishes of elaborate pattern. In one corner is a shop wherethe men are busy cutting out saddle trees and material for boxes,while just next door they are making copper kettles, dishes andpans, starting with the sheet copper and gradually beating it outwith hammer and anvil into the desired shape and are stores occupied by the curio dealers with their assort-ment of porcelain, bronze and other thi
. Peking : a social survey conducted under auspices of the Princeton University Center in China and the Peking Young Men's Christian Association. nd working with a few simple tools,make dishes of elaborate pattern. In one corner is a shop wherethe men are busy cutting out saddle trees and material for boxes,while just next door they are making copper kettles, dishes andpans, starting with the sheet copper and gradually beating it outwith hammer and anvil into the desired shape and are stores occupied by the curio dealers with their assort-ment of porcelain, bronze and other things, wonderfully inter-esting places to spend an hour and keen men with whom to makea bargain. , Besides these there are cloth and tea shops, pipestores, shops where they make reed mats, another for paperclothes, silk thread stores, a sword shop and one that deals inpig bristles. Mixed in with all these are a number of residences,usually one or two rooms for each family, and, as there is notraffic on the roads except now and then some one bringing insupplies for the shops, much of the life is out where it can beseen. TENG SHIH KOU DISTRICT. B-Batii House c-Ctepd H-Hoftl R-International Reform M-Militaiy Guard Mi>Nanchu Office ?-Police Officer *-Scliool X-Toilet 1-Temple •-Well w-Womens Christian Temperance Union v-Yamen El Police Sub-headqnarten - Wafer Mains — Sewers o Water Hydranto Sewer Openiggs Figure 23: Teng Shih Kou District Similar but even more varied are the shops along HatamenStreet, where there are some fifty-five different kinds of merely sell things made elsewhere, while others have menbusy making the articles in which they deal. There are chinastores with dishes up to the ceiUng, stove stores with the menwalking round and round shaping the clay stoves without eventhe help of a potters wheel, tea shops with the people sitting PEKING: A SOCIAL SURVEY around drinking tea and gossiping, cooked food shops with thecooks busy over the fire and the st
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