Nonfiction · 1901
The Chinese Boy and Girl
The Chinese Boy and Girl, first published in 1901, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Preface
- The Nursery and Its Rhymes
- Children and Child-Life
- Games Played by Boys
- Games Played by Girls
- The Toys Children Play with
- Block Games—Kindergarten
- Children’s Shows and Entertainments
- Juvenile Juggling
- Stories Told to Children
- The Heavenly River, with the People Who Dwell Thereon
- The Land of Giants
- The Land of Dwarfs
- The Sun Went Backward
- Mars, the God of War
- Rip Van Winkle
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1859–1942 · Modern
Isaac Taylor Headland (1859–1942) was born in Freedom, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Mount Union College in 1888 before going to Peking in 1890 as a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, where he taught science at Peking University. In 1894 he married Marian Sinclair, a physician whose practice among the aristocratic families of the capital gave the couple entry to court circles that included relatives of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Drawing on that access, he wrote The Chinese Boy and Girl, Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes, and Court Life in China (1909), his account of the Qing court's officials, ladies, and customs. He died in 1942.
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