Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year 1893-1894
1893; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
Wm. Bright, George Graham Brown, James Scott, Rev. Geo. W. Clarke,
ResumoFrontmatter: List of Members of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year 1893-1894. Table of contents: Contributors, Etc., Index to Names of Places, Index to Maps, Contents of This Volume. Essay: Dividing the Reports into Sections as Proposed, We Find under the First Heading of Main Communications, the Following, I.—Available Inns, Errata and Addenda [The Transcription as Adopted by the Compiler Had Also for Uniformity's Sake Unavoidably to Be Maintained …, Probably No Country in the World, Certainly None Aiming at Civilisation Even of the Most Rudimentary Nature, Has Paid so Little Attention to Roads and Means of Communication as the Chinese Empire; and It May Be Remarked at the Outset That No Road in the European Acceptance of the Term, as an Artificially Constructed Viaduct, Laid out with Engineering Skill Even of the Meanest Description, Exists from One End of China to the Other, IV The Lower Yangtsze Provinces, List of Members (Corrected to May 31st, 1897), Under F., the Rate of Travel Per Day and the Average Cost Per 100 Li, and G., the Average Cost of Carriage of Goods Per 100 Li and the Rate at Which They Are Usually Carried, as Well as the Standard of Measurement, Bulk or Weigh, Considerable Difference, According to the Districts Traversed, Are Found in the Replies, The Following Notes from the Rev. C. F. Hogg, of the China Inland Mission, Go over so Much Ground and Take so Wide a View of the Question That the Compiler Hesitated Placing Them under Any Special District, H & I.—Safety of Roads, Inns, and Statistics, List of Officers of the Society 1897-98, I North-West, In Closing This Record of the Communications of the North-West, and in View of the Reiterated Complaints of the Want of Bridges, the Following Description of the One Famous Bridge in the Country Is Interesting from More than One Point of View, V The Northern Provinces, The Yü-Li or Precious Records, More or Less the Questions Asked under Section D, As the Li, the Geographical Unit of the Chinese, Is Several Times Mentioned It May Be Stated That Nominally It Consists of 360 Double Paces of 5½ Feet, or Exactly 1,980 Feet English, With Regard to the Transliteration of the Chinese Names, These Have Been Carried out in an Uniform System, VI Shing-King, III The South, Inland Communications in China. Arts and entertainment: Bridges, Notes on Bridge of Boats at Lan-Cheo, Kansuh. Shipping news: Under E., the Usual Mode of Conveyance for Passengers and Goods, We Find Little Variety in the Replies. Fiction, drama: There Must Be Many Interesting Stories Rife about the Old Doings at This Bridge, but I Have Only Gathered Two Incidents Which Seem Worth Repeating, Stray Notes on Corean History and Literature. Business: D. & E.—Trade Routes and Usual Modes of Conveyance.
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