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CHAPTER XXVII.. In the Chinese Empire—a City Without a Woman—a Chinese Court of

Overland Through Asia · Thomas Wallace Knox — chapter 21 of 98 · ~47 words · public domain

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In the Chinese empire—A city without a woman—A Chinese court of justice—Five interpretations—Chinese and Russian methods of tea making—A Chinese temple—Sculpture in sand stone—The gods and the Celestials—The Chinese idea of beauty—The houses in Maimaichin—Chinese dogs—Bartering with the merchants—The Chinese ideas of honesty—How they entertained us—The Abacus

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