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

[277] Chinese Repository, Vol. X., p. 614.

[278] Compare Père Cibot in Mémoires concernant les Chinois, Tome IV., pp. 1 ff.; Dr. Legge, The Sacred Books of China, Part I. The Shû-king, Religious Portions of the Shih-king, the Hsiâo-king, Oxford, 1879; Asiatic Journal, Vol. XXIX., pp. 302 ff., 1839.

[279] Chinese Repository, Vol. VI., p. 131.

[280] Chinese Repository, Vol. IV., p. 414. See also Vol. VI., pp. 229-241; Vol. IV., pp. 1-10; Vol. XI., pp. 545-557; and Vol. XIII., pp. 626-641, for further notices of the modes and objects of education; Biot, Essai sur l’Histoire de l’Instruction Publique en Chine, and his translation of the Chao-lí, Vol. II., p. 27, Paris, 1851. Chinese Recorder, September, 1871.

[281] Chinese Repository, Vol. II., p. 249; Vol. XVI., pp. 67-72. Doolittle, Social Life of the Chinese, Vol. I., pp. 376-443. Dr. Martin, The Chinese.

[282] The Chinese, p. 50.

[283] Biot, Essai sur l’Instruction en Chine, p. 603.

[284] Chinese Repository, Vol. IX., p. 541; Vol. III., p. 118.

[285] See Morrison’s Chinese Dictionary, Vol. I., Part I., pp. 759-779, for the laws and usages of the several trials. Also Doolittle’s Social Life, Vol. I., Chaps. XV., XVI., and XVII.; Biot, Essai sur l’Histoire de l’Instruction Publique en Chine; W. A. P. Martin, The Chinese, pp. 39 ff.; Journal Asiatique, Tomes III., pp. 257 and 321, IV., p. 3, and VII. (3d Series, 1839), pp. 32-81; Journal Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Vol. XXVIII., No. 1, 1859; Journal N. C. Br. B. As. Soc., New Series, Vol. VI., pp. 129 ff.; China Review, Vol. II., p. 309.

[286] Ellis, Embassy to China, p. 87; Chinese Repository, Vol. XVI., p. 62; Vol. IV., p. 125.