This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. THE T'SING T'SONG T'sue. IN Europe and America millions daily use articles called after the country of one of the most ancient peoples of the earth, without ever thinking of their far-off, oblique-eyed, saffron-skinned, cone-shape-headed cousins -- if we may give the name of cousin to a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. THE T'SING T'SONG T'sue. IN Europe and America millions daily use articles called after the country of one of the most ancient peoples of the earth, without ever thinking of their far-off, oblique-eyed, saffron-skinned, cone-shape-headed cousins -- if we may give the name of cousin to a race separated from the Aryan and Semitic types by a boundary line very strongly defined. Whether they are our cousins or not, it is certain that in the T'sing T'song T'sue we are brought face to face with one of the most ancient, as well as most singular races of people on the earth. In no other nation do we find so many peculiarities. If we study their history we are confronted with an antiquity reaching back thousands upon thousands of years B. C. If we examine their physical characteristics we are equally impressed with their race-singularity, as we find the oblique eye, the saffron-colored skin, the long, receding head -- which so struck Linnaeus that he described them as, "Homo Monstrosus macrocephalus capite conico Chinensis " -- the high cheek bones, the flat nose and open nostril, the wide mouth and thick lips, the see-saw gait, the stolidity of expression; if we observe their customs -- the dwarfing of the feet of high-born ladies in order to give a stylish toppling forward sort of gait, the cultivation of long nails which are nightly incased in bamboo shields for fear of their being cracked or broken off, and which mark the noble from the laboring class, the pigtail enormously lengthened by a silken cord plaited in at the end to indicate a high-bred gentleman, as we note the high-sounding names and titles which every Emperor is obliged to assume as befitting (no matter how odious his private character) his transcendent virtues, ...
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