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Yang Shen, Book I, 1st Edition
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Yankee Mandarin, Book I
This title is now available as a free eBook from the publisher Old China Books (oldchinabooks.com)
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Kindle eBooks for Yankee Mandarin, and Yang Shen Book I 1st Edition, ordered “unpublished”
Old China Books has been ordered by Amazon Kindle to “unpublish” two of three Kindle eBooks, for the reasons cited in the KDP email below. Accordingly, OCB will “unpublish” the eBook for the 1st Edition of Yang Shen, Book I, and the eBook … Continue reading
Manilamen and Mandarins – Filipinos in 1860s China, Part 4: Balla Crazy Gumarang and Palaso Arrow Salangsang
Balla Crazy Gumarang and Palaso Arrow Salangsang Balla Crazy Gumarang was a common criminal, a tulisan – a brigand – or had been in the eyes of the Spanish gaolers at the Mantamang penal colony, called Cervantes by the Spaniards, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bontoc, double-periagua, Filipinos, Fletcher Thorson Wood, Foreign Rifles, Frederick Townsend Ward, headhunters, Ilocano, Ilocos Sur, Jolo, Manilamen, Moro pirates, Philippines, prahu, Sultan of Mindanao, Sulu Sea, Taiping rebels, traveling forge, winged horses, Yankee Mandarin, Zamboanga
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Manilamen and Mandarins – Filipinos in 1860s China, Part 3: Tata Grandfather Viray
Tata Grandfather Viray Tata Grandfather Viray was born in 1821 or 1822, he was not sure which, the son of an Ilocano boat-builder. “I grew up playing in Cavite and Vigan boatyards. Those yards build vessels native to our islands, small chatta, covered … Continue reading
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Tagged Caoayan, Cavite, coasting trade, Cuesta, Filipinos, Fletcher Thorson Wood, Foreign Rifles, Frederick Townsend Ward, Ilocano, Ilocos Sur, Intramuros, Manilamen, Philippines, Sharps carbine, Taiping rebels, tulisans, Vigan, Yankee Mandarin
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Manilamen and Mandarins – Filipinos in 1860s China, Part 2: Paco Cockfighter Dalogdog
Paco Cockfighter Dalogdog “Paco was larger than other Manilamen – more Fletcher’s size – with light brown skin, hazel eyes, dark brown curly hair, and teeth lightly stained reddish-black by buyo, betel nut. He wore black cotton trousers and a … Continue reading
Beijing of Dreams website archives old photos of Beijing
The new Beijing of Dreams website photo archive is a fine collection to place together with the work of John Thompson and Felice Beato (photogs in China during the mid-1860s). The images were “scanned in high resolution and where necessary digitally enhanced,” and they are … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860 Allied Expeditionary Force, Bejing, Ch'ing-p'u, Felice Beato, Garnet Wolesley, Heinz von Perckhammer, John Thompson, Jonathan Greet, Osvald Sirén, Pehtang, Peking, Perckhammer, photo archive, photos of old Beijing, Robert Swinehoe, Robert Temple, Second China War, Tagu Forts, The History of Chinese Science and Culture Foundation, The Walls and Gates of Peking, Yang Shen, Yankee Mandarin, 北塘, 大沽, 青浦
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Flay the Plaintiff, Fleece the Defendant – Law in Old China
Old China had a draconian solution for reducing litigation – torture everyone concerned, plaintiff or defendant, or extort silver from the litigants in place of torture. Rather than have their toes and fingers squeezed between blocks of hard wood, or kneel on … Continue reading
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Tagged Ch'ing legal code, China in 1860, chinese courts, Clarence Morris, David D. Friedman, Dirk Bodde, district magistrate, five degrees of mourning, Law in Imperial China, legal case, legal decisions, Liu Hsün-kao, Manchu, mandarins, Wu Hsü, Yankee Mandarin, 殺一家三人罪, 毆組父母父母, 犯罪存留養親, 發塚
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The Women of Yankee Mandarin – the Decorous and the Disaffected
The women of Yankee Mandarin contrast dramatically, especially the two of this post, Elizabeth and Ch’ang-mei. Each is fashionable and elite in her place and time, but both are discontent with their circumstances, resentful of their treatment by men, and of … Continue reading
