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“China” (Publication, 1930)

Year

1930

Text

Tietjens, Eunice. China. Ed. by Burton Holmes ; text by Eunice Tietjens and Louise Strong Hammond, illustrations by Burton Holmes. (Chicago, Ill. : Wheeler, 1930). (Buton Holmes travel stories). [Bericht der Reise von Eunice Tietjens nach China und Japan 1915-1916]. [Das Buch ist in keiner Bibliothek in Europa zu finden].
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Contents
A
story and a proberb
Things to be considered first
The port of Hong-Kong
The geography of China
Canton and South China
What they wear in China
The honored dead
Children of the flowery kingdom
The great days
Houses that turn inward
The eyes of the houses
Chinese government
Work and workers
Tea
Shanghai – a treaty port
Golden temples
Central China
Some Chinese customs
The great Yangtze-kiang
Junks and junk folk
The art of the ages
Fun and festivals
Queer beasts
What the Chinese eat
Too many mouths
The charm of Pagodas
Confucius, the great teacher
Chinese gardens
Family life
The boy and the pomegranate tree
Industry and commerce
The fields of China
Cormorant fishing
Games, rhymes and stories
Northern ChinaIn the land of handicraft
Strange gods
Country filk
Peking, the former capital of China
Palaces like those in dreams
Railroads
Graceful roofs
Women and their work
Walls, great and small
Gates and doorways
Chinese conveyances
Beautiful bridges
The Ming tombs
Camels, The ships of the desert
Foreigners in China
Ideal domestics
Shops and shoppers
Peddlers of all sorts
Schools, both old and new
A strange language
Chinese music
A peaceful people
The awakening of China (Tiet1)

Type

Publication

Contributors (3)

Holmes, Burton  (Chicago, Ill. 1870-1958 Los Angeles, Calif.) : Photograph, Reisender, Filmregisseur

Strong, Anna Louise  (Friend, Nebraska 1885-1970 Beijing) : Journalistin, Schriftstellerin

Tietjens, Eunice  (Chicago, Ill. 1884-1944 Chicago, Ill.) : Schriftstellerin, Dichterin, Journalistin

Subjects

Literature : Occident : United States of America : Prose / Travel and Legation Accounts

Cited by (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1958 Yuan, Tung-li [Yuan, Tongli]. China in western literature. (New Haven, Conn. : Yale University, 1958). (Far Eastern publications). [A continuation of Henri Cordier's Bibliotheca sinica]. Publication / Yuan
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
  • Person: Cordier, Henri
  • Person: Yuan, Tongli
2 2007- Worldcat/OCLC Web / WC