Personally, I never noticed this arrangement.
Again: "Some of the tops with which the Chinese amuse themselves are as large as barrels. It takes three men to spin one, and it gives off a sound that may be heard several hundred yards away."
"The Chinese National Anthem is so long that it takes half a day to sing it."
"Chinese women devote very little superfluous time to hair-dressing. Their tresses are arranged once a month, and they sleep with their heads in boxes."
What we want in place of all this is a serious and systematic examination of the manners and customs, and modes of thought, of the Chinese people.
Their long line of Dynastic Histories must be explored and their literature ransacked by students who have got through the early years of drudgery inseparable from the peculiar nature of the written language, and who are prepared to devote themselves, not, as we do now, to a general knowledge of the whole, but to a thorough acquaintance with some particular branch.
The immediate advantages of such a course, as I must point out once more, for the last time, to commerce and to diplomatic relations will be incalculable. And they will be shared in by the student of history, philosophy, and religion, who will then for the first time be able to assign to China her proper place in the family of nations.
The founder of this Chinese Chair has placed these advantages within the grasp of Columbia University.
_Account of Strange Nations_, book in Cambridge collection, 58.
Ancestry of Chinese traced through mother in ancient times, 27.
"And," idea in Chinese written character, 28.
Archæology-- Chinese dictionaries and work, 120. Confucian Canon, archæological works referring to, 43. "Ark," erroneous analysis of Chinese written character, 34.
Athenian and Chinese women, points of resemblance, 121.
Baby Towers, Chinese infanticide, 190-192.
Bactria-- Alchemy, practice imported into China, 166 Mission of Chang Ch'ien, 130-131
Bamboo tables, style of Chinese writing, 26
Biographies-- _Historical Record_, 46-47. National and private records, 49-50.
_Biographies of Eminent Women_, description, 50.
Bird-Bishop, Mrs., statement as to infanticide, 192, 193.
Black-haired People, title of Chinese, 181.