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FIFTH THOUSAND A Cycle of Cathay OR China, South and North IVith Personal Reminiscences By W. A. P. MARTIN, D.D., LL.D. President Emeritus of the Imperial Tungwen College, Peking With Seventy Illustrations from Photographs and Native Drawings, a Map and an\ Index Svo, Decorated Cloth, $2.00 " He is one of the scholarly Americans who, whether as missionaries, teachers, diplomatists or educators, have shed lustre upon the name of the United States. If one were to erase from the record of American negotiations with China, or of American scholarship in things Chinese, the names of missionaries, then our country's record in the Middle King dom would be scarcely higher than that ot a semi-barbarous nation. . . . Dr. Martin, as the head of the college created by the Chinese Foreign Office, learned at first hand what he describes, and his story is a modest narrative of things seen and known.
The book is especially interesting in its richness of personal reminiscences of notable personages, both native and foreign It is very full also concerning re cent events in which China, Russia and Japan have been concerned. Probably no other volume gives so accurate and trustworthy an account of those great questions, still pending, which have their centre in the Far East, in which Korea is the 'sick man' and the European powers and a few rtil I unconquered Asiatic nations are vitality inter ested." — The Critic. •' No student of Eastern affairs can afford to neglect this work, which will take its place with Dr. Williams' 'The Middle Kingdom' as an authoritative work on China."— Tke Outlook. FLEMING H REVELL COMPANY New York: 158 Fifth Ave. Chicago: 63 Washington St- Toronto : 154 Yonge St Hanlin Papers, First Series THE CHINESE Their Education, Phi losophy and Letters BY W. A. P. MARTIN^ D.D., LL.D. President Emeritus of theTungwen College, Peking Author of " A Cycle of Cathay " New York Chicago Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company -M DCCC XCVI1I Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by HARPER & BROTHERS In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington All rights reserved TO PROFESSOR W. D. WHITNEY, LL.D. THE MAINSTAY OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, AND A DISTINGUISHED LEADER IN ORIENTAL STUDIES, THIS LITTLE VOLUME, WHICH, IN SOME SENSE OWES ITS EXISTENCE TO HIM Is ftespectftiUn Unscribcb BY HIS FRIEND THE AUTHOR
Preface
. My dear Professor Whitney, — The earliest of the following essays was written at your instance twenty years ago ; and you will recognize several of the others as having passed through your hands on their way to the A. O. S., or to the magazines in which they made their first appearance. You will, I trust, welcome them as old friends, and for their sake give a favorable reception to those which are now, for the first time, introduced to your attention. The contents of this volume, though somewhat miscellaneous, are yet connected by a certain unity ; falling naturally into three divisions, treating respectively of the education, philosophy, and letters of the Chinese — iu a word, of their intellectual life. I call them Hanlin* Papers, not merely because the first three discuss educational processes which culminate in the Hanlin Academy, but more especially because the Hanlin is confessedly the highest embodiment of Chinese intellectual life.
No one of these papers throws any light on your favorite field of research,f and none of them pretends to be exhaustive of its special subject ; they are offered to you and the public only as a bundle of Beitrdge — a small contribution towards the better understanding of China and the Chinese. Yours truly, W. A. P. Martin. Peking, March 24, 1880. * The title of the first edition, printed in China. T Philology. CONTENTS. TAGE The Hanlin Yuan, or Imperial Academy 1 Competitive Examinations in China 39 Education in China 57 An Old University in China 85 The San Kiao, or Three Religions of China 97 Remarks on the Ethical Philosophy of the Chinese 125 Isis and Osiris, or Oriental Dualism 154 Alchemy in China 1C7 Remarks on the Style of Chinese Those 194 On the Style of Chinese Epistolary Composition 212 Chinese Fables 224 The Renaissance in China 228
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