The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) / A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants

by S. Wells Williams

[157] Chinese Repository, Vol. I., p. 332.

[158] Ibid., Vol. VII., p. 503; Vol. II., p. 161.

[159] Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. II., p. 152.

[160] Penal Code, p. 79, Staunton’s translation.

[161] Voyages à Peking, Tome III., pp. 55-86.

[162] The shih, says Medhurst, is a measure of grain containing 3,460 English cubic inches. China: Its State and Prospects, p. 68. London, 1838.

[163] Annales de la Foi, Tome XVI., p. 440.

[164] Chinese Commercial Guide, 2d edition, 1842, p. 143.

[165] Chinese Repository, Vol. I., p. 159.

[166] Chinese Repository, Vol. II., p. 431.