A Chinese mirror: being reflections of the reality behind appearance
Title:
A Chinese mirror: being reflections of the reality behind appearance
Author:
Ayscough, Florence Wheelock, 1878-1942.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin company; London : J. Cape, ltd., [1925]
Physical Description:
464 pages including frontispiece, illustrations, folded ma pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Printed in Great Britain.
Language:
English
Contents:
The grass hut by the Yellow Reach.--The literary background of the great river.--The Chinese idea of a garden.--Symbolism of the Purple Forbidden City.--Tʼai Shan: the great mountain.--Cult of the Spiritual Magistrates of city walls and city moats.--Synopsis of Chinese history from the legendary times to the founding of the republic.
Format :
Book