Sketches in the Foreign Settlements and Native City

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketches in the Foreign Settlements and Native City: Shanghai The Mixed Court of Shanghai; Apotheosis of Liu Sing Kau, God of Peace; Manila Cock-Pit in Bamboo Town; The Birthday of the Moon: in Shanghai City by Night; A Morning at the Grand Stand, and a Sale of Griffins; The Mafoos' Race, or the Native Scramble; A Midnight Alarm of Fire; Performances at a Chinese Theatre; The City of Shanghai: its Streets, Temples, Prisons, and Gardens; The Jin-Ric-Sha and its Coolie; A Curiosity Stall at the City Gate; The Chinese Wheelbarrow and its Coolie; Chinese Printers; Chinese Legerdemain: the Showmen on Hongkew Wharf; Anglo-Chinese Signboards; The Chinese Policeman; Chinese Boys; The Cangue, and the Chain-Gang; A Trip on the Yang-Tsze-Kian, from Shanghai to Hankow About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.