Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . 49-51- Manchurian ladies in ordinary dress. — ISV. 53. A Manchurian girl in modern ordinary dress. themselves have utlopted .some of those of the eonciuered raee, thus the dis-tinetion onee existing between the two races in this respect has Ijeen almostobliterated, the only difterenee visible being in the style of the womens apparel,their mode of dressing their hair, and their feet (Manchn ladies never boundtheir feet). In all other res])cets their tnanners and customs Jire those of theNorth Chinese. They speak the same dialect as that ]irevailing in NorthChina
Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . 49-51- Manchurian ladies in ordinary dress. — ISV. 53. A Manchurian girl in modern ordinary dress. themselves have utlopted .some of those of the eonciuered raee, thus the dis-tinetion onee existing between the two races in this respect has Ijeen almostobliterated, the only difterenee visible being in the style of the womens apparel,their mode of dressing their hair, and their feet (Manchn ladies never boundtheir feet). In all other res])cets their tnanners and customs Jire those of theNorth Chinese. They speak the same dialect as that ]irevailing in NorthChina, and use the same characters as the rest of the Republic. In the remotecorners of the provinces of Kirin {~^W^a) and Amur (Mfi^iS-^) ^vhere the oldfungus races have ke])t themselves isolated and Ijcyond the tide of the Chineseimmigration, the old Manclui tongue, which is entirely different Irom Chinese,is still s])okcn, and even the wiitten language is different. The written lan-guage was invented by the Manchn himself, Mongol l)eing taken as the contains 25 letters or
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