Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Places

    China

    place · 7 works · 11 mentions · 11 anchored passages

    Chinese · Chinese women · the great organised Chinese Empire

    in the texts

    Dissertations on Early Law and Custom19th Century · English

    The country presented as the foremost site of enduring ancestor worship.

    ‘Great (in China) are the expenses entailed by the dead on the living.
    chapter 4
    Tylor’s reflections on the whole of this marvellous system of belief and practice (‘Primitive Culture,’ ii.
    chapter 4
    The most ancient Chinese records are the earlier portions of those famous collections in prose and verse, the Shu-King and the Shih-King.
    chapter 4

    Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

    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.
    chapter 14
    Sir George Staunton in history of the English embassy to China in 1793, states “that the taxes of China amounted to 5s sterling;
    chapter 18

    An Essay on Crimes and PunishmentsEnlightenment · English

    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?
    chapter 59

    Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century19th Century · English

    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.
    introduction

    Ancient Law19th Century · English

    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.
    chapter 6

    Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

    Country cited as an example of a society commonly assumed immobile but reconsidered by Maine.

    We constantly leave aside India, China, and the whole Mahometan East.
    lecture viii the growth and diffusion of primitive
    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.
    lecture viii the growth and diffusion of primitive

    Applied Eugenics20th Century · English

    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.
    chapter 1