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Court Life in China: TheCapital Its Officials and People

Court Life in China: TheCapital Its Officials and People

Headland, Isaac Taylor

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Chinese HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1410207463
ISBN13: 9781410207463
Publisher: Intl Law & Taxation Publ
Published: Aug 9 2003
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.03
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.14 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
Originally published in 1909, when in the Preface it was said: Until the past ten years a study of Chinese court life would have been an impossibility. The Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the court ladies were shut up within the Forbidden City, away from a world they were anxious to see, and which was equally anxious to see them. Then the Emperor instituted reform, the Empress Dowager came out from behind the screen, and the court entered into social relations with Europeans. For twenty years and more Mrs. Headland has been physician to the family of the Empress Dowager's mother, the Empress' sister, and many of the princesses and high official ladies in Peking. She has visited them in a social as well as professional way, has taken her friends, to whom the princesses have shown many favours, and they have themselves been constant callers at our home. It is to my wife, therefore, that I am indebted for much of the information contained in this book. Isaac Taylor Headland was a Professor in the Peking University.

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