The Adventures of Wu : : The Life Cycle of a Peking Man /

The Adventures of Wu : : The Life Cycle of a Peking Man / / H. Y. Lowe.

Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional family--the traditionally-minded, lower middle- class family of Wu. The author uses experiences of the Wu family's son from birth to marri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
VerfasserIn:
Lowe, H. Y.,
TeilnehmendeR:
Bodde, Derk.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1983
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 655
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Physical Description:1 online resource (514 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S NOTE
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • FOREWORD
  • I
  • INTRODUCING THE WU FAMILY
  • A SON IS BORN
  • THE THIRD DAY BATH
  • THE FULL MONTH CELEBRATION
  • THE VISIT TO THE GRANDPARENTS
  • THE FIRST YEAR PASSES
  • A DOCTOR IS CONSULTED
  • THE MIAO FENG SHAN PILGRIMAGE
  • CHINESE NURSERY RHYMES
  • FAMOUS FLOWERS OF PEKING
  • THREE PICTURESQUE TEMPLES
  • AMUSEMENTS IN SEASON
  • HOME GARDENS
  • GAMES FOR CHILDREN
  • THE DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL
  • THE TEMPLE OUTSIDE HATA MEN
  • TEASHOP STORYTELLERS
  • A POPULAR FAIR
  • SUMMER PASTIMES
  • FIRST STEPS TO KNOWLEDGE
  • A FISHING EXPEDITION
  • LITTLE BALD HEAD GOES TO SCHOOL
  • OLD MR, WU'S BIRTHDAY
  • THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH
  • ANCESTOR WORSHIP
  • II
  • WATER PLANTS AND DRAGONS
  • THE WAYS OF PEKING PIGEONS
  • THE IMPORTANCE OF FRIENDSHIP
  • THE COMING OF AUTUMN
  • THE MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
  • IN SEARCH OF A PEKINGESE
  • YELLOW WINE AND WHITE WINE
  • HUNTING IN ANCIENT CHINA
  • THE FESTIVAL OF THE DOUBLE YANG
  • OLD MR. WU BECOMES ILL
  • DEATH PROCEDURES
  • FUNERAL CEREMONIES
  • THE FUNERAL IS HELD
  • SKATES, CHESS AND PORRIDGE
  • PREPARING FOR THE NEW YEAR
  • THE LUNAR NEW YEAR
  • VISITING THE TEMPLES
  • THE CHANG TIEN-ERH FAIR
  • THE BETROTHAL OF YOUNG WU
  • YOUNG WU IS MARRIED
  • INDEX
  • ERRATA

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