China
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Chinese · Chinese women · al-Ṣīn · some quarters of China · the great organised Chinese Empire · الصين · بعض جهات الصين
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The country presented as the foremost site of enduring ancestor worship.
‘Great (in China) are the expenses entailed by the dead on the living.
Tylor’s reflections on the whole of this marvellous system of belief and practice (‘Primitive Culture,’ ii.
The most ancient Chinese records are the earlier portions of those famous collections in prose and verse, the Shu-King and the Shih-King.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Named as a comparative example alongside Britain of a country whose government subjects labour to the direction of mercenary combinations.
This is the very power which constitutes the nature of the Chinese and British governments, enables them to place labour under the intelligent direction of mercenary combinations, and causes the miseries of labourers in those countries.
Sir George Staunton in history of the English embassy to China in 1793, states “that the taxes of China amounted to 5s sterling;
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
China as the far eastern bound named in the dedicatee's titles.
and by composing it I have served the library of the most great patron, master of the necks of the nations, lord of the viziers of the East and of China, quintessence of the sultan of sultans, deliverer of creation from destruction, holder of the chancery of the realms, succour of mankind, rain-shower of liberality, banner of guidance:
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Invoked as an example of an ancient empire whose legal system required imperial review before any execution.
Must we go to the end of the world, must we have recourse to the laws of China, to learn how frugal we ought to be of human blood?
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Country cited as example of drought-induced famine affecting commerce
Many of the trade difficulties of ancient times and of the middle ages can be directly traced to drought, or to flood, in the same way that famine due to similar causes has a prejudicial effect upon commerce in China, in India, in Russia, and even to a certain extent in Europe and America to-day.
Ancient Law
Region cited as an example of arrested legal development coextensive with its ideas.
In China this point has been past, but progress seems to have been there arrested, because the civil laws are coextensive with all the ideas of which the race is capable.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Country cited as an example of a society commonly assumed immobile but reconsidered by Maine.
There must have been a series of ages during which the progress of China was very steadily maintained, and doubtless our assumption of the absolute immobility of the Chinese and other societies is in part the expression of our ignorance.
We constantly leave aside India, China, and the whole Mahometan East.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
East Asian country, parts of which are named among the places with traces of totemism.
In Asia it has a trace in central India among some of the non-Aryan tribes of Bengal, and in Siberia, and some quarters of China, and the islands of the ocean — and most of these tribes have been brought by the scholars under totemism by analogy, because they hold certain animals or plants sacred even though they do not name themselves after them.
Applied Eugenics
Country whose tradition of foot-binding in women is cited as evidence that mutilations are not inherited.
Although they have been tightly bound for many generations, no deformity is apparent in the feet of girl babies.