- Young Chinese Boy
- Painting a rock
Painting a rock - Rooster divider
- Reading a scroll
- Prince Chin Pa tried in vain to hold his followers
- Rough Sea Divider
- When Ah Tcha had eaten his Evening Rice, he took lantern and entered the largest of his mills
- Of course, they wore hideous false faces
- Old Chinese Man Divider
- Man working at the table
- Then he seized the plaques and flung them from him
- Meng Hu could imagine a knife at his throat
- We are the Shen, demons of the sea
- Tiao Fu snatched up her little-used embroidery scissors. Snip, Snip, Snip
- So the seventh demon sped away taking the sea with him
- Three Old Men
- So Chai Mi sat beside the river and sewed and wept
- Therefore—upon his donkey—the contrary husband started for Tsun Pu
- More and more sad came the music
- This nice large one is for your dinner a
- The first portrait he painted was that of Ying Ning, a monstrous ugly maiden
- The house of Weng Fu was luxurious in the extreme
- The king and his generals gazed across the river
- This nice large one is for your dinner
- Three children and the old man
- The king crawled under his throne
- The royal generals . . . knelt before Hai Low and bumped their heads in the dust
- It was the howl of a wolf
- Divider
- Kneeling before a tree
- It was a well-plucked traveler who returned
- Chinese street scene
- Drinking Tea
- Flowers in the rain
- Dragon
- Floral Divider
- Chinaman with beard
Chinaman with beard - He made a V of the bowstring
- How could she make beds when her hair needed burnishing
- Twisting a man's Ears
He is held securely by two men, in the service of a tribunal, who are instructed to give pain, by a particular method of twisting the cartilages of the ears . - Dragon Divider
- 'I—I—I—am hungry,' stammered Han Hsin
- Torturing the Fingers
This is effected by placing small pieces of wood betwixt them, and then drawing them very forcibly together with cords. It is frequently inflicted as a punishment upon disorderly women . There are no people existing, who pay so sacred an attention to the laws of decency as the Chinese ; habituated in preserving the constant appearance of modesty and self -controul, nothing is more uncommon amongst them, than deleterious examples of unblushing vice ; and if there be truth in the old maxim , that want of decency, either in action , or in word, betrays a deficiency of understanding, they certainly indicate more sense than some other nations , who affect to excel them in education and refinement. The general manners of people of every condition in China wear as modest a habit, as their persons. They discover no gratification in wresting their proper language into impure meanings; and grossly offensive phrases are only to be heard amongst the very dregs of the community, and at the risk of immediate and severe judicial correction . - 'Broooomp'
- House under a tree
- Han Hsin raised a bridge from island to mainland
- By look and action he was a maiden
- He was a weighty elephant—amid the cabbages
- Doctor Chu Ping beamed upon him
- Chinese man rowing divider
- He kept his forehead tight-pressed to the floor
- At that same hour a basket was found in the garden
- A whanging of wings that lifted . . . Up . . . Higher . . . Swifter
- . . . And cut leaf-shaped pieces
- Young Chinese Divider
- A necklace
- A helping hand
- A juggler
Preforming tricks with Jars This engraving exhibits a posture-master balancing two large China vases, and throwing himself into most extraordinary attitudes. - A Chinese Mendicant
Begging is by no means a profitable trade in China, and few therefore pursue it except the monks of Fo and Tao-tzé, and a few impostors who go about pretending to foretell events and predict good or ill fortune. The annexed is the representation of a beggar of a different description. The piece of hollow wood in his hand is struck to draw attention, and the label on his back describes his condition, which is not exactly such as in other countries would excite much compassion. It states his unfortunate situation, as having no children to take care of him, to console him in affliction, to give him food when hungry, or medicine when sick. The want of children is considered in China as the greatest of all misfortunes, and is in reality so, as by the moral precepts of that nation, which have all the force of law, filial piety is looked upon as the first of moral virtues; and, however poor a child may be, he is bound to share his earnings with his aged parents. - A Mandarin
All officers of state, whether civil or military, from the highest to the lowest, have been named by the early Portuguese writers mandarins, from a word in their own language, mandar, to command; and this name, improper as it is, has preserved its ground ever since. The figure of a bird on the embroidered breast-plate of the annexed figure points him out as a civilian. A military officer wears the figure of an animal resembling the tiger. The degree of `rank`, whether civil or military, is marked by a small globe on the top of the cap, opake red coral distinguishing the highest, and brass the lowest `rank`: the intermediate colours are transparent red, opake and transparent blue, opake and transparent white. As a mark of imperial favour, one, two, or three feathers from the tail of the peacock are appended to the back part of the bonnet. All officers, whether civil or military, invariably wear thick-quilted boots, and, when in their court-dresses, embroidered petticoats. Most of them wear chains of coral, or agate, or coloured glass round the neck, as in the annexed figure.