[357] Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. I., p. 243.
[358] Compare an article by W. F. Mayers in Notes and Queries on C. and J., Vol. I., pp. 170-173 (with illustrations); Mrs. Gray, Fourteen Months in Canton, passim; Dr. Edkins in Journal N. C. Br. R. A. Soc., Vol. XI., p. 123; Doolittle, Vocabulary, Part III., No. LXVIII; Engineer J. W. King in The United Service, Vol. II., p. 382 (Phila., 1880).
[359] Chinese Repository, Vol. VI., p. 149.
[360] Chinese Repository, Vol. XII., p. 528; Medhurst’s Hohkeën Dictionary, Introduction pp. XXII, XXIII.
[361] Barrow’s Travels, p. 338.
[362] Encyclopædia Americana, Art. Canton.
[363] It is recorded that Hau-Chu, of the Chin dynasty, in the year A.D. 583 ordered Lady Yao to bind her feet so as to make them look like the new moon; and that the evil fashion has since prevailed against all subsequent prohibitions.—Notes and Queries on China and Japan, Vol. II., pp. 27 and 43.
[364] Murray’s China, Vol. II., p. 266. Compare the Chinese Repository, Vol. III., p. 537; Rec. de Mém. de Médecine milit. (Paris), 1862-63-64 passim; Chinese Recorder, Vols. I., II., and III. passim (mostly a series of articles on this subject by Dr. Dudgeon); The Far East, February, 1877, p. 27.
[365] The Jade Chaplet, p. 121.
[366] On Chinese costume, see Wm. Alexander, The Costume of China, illustrated, London, 1805; Mœurs et Coutumes des Chinois et leurs costumes en couleur, par J. G. Grohmann, Leipzig; Breton, China: Its Costume, Arts, etc., 4 vols., translated from the French, London, 1812; another translation is from Auguste Borget, Sketches of China and the Chinese, London, 1842; Illustrations of China and its People. A series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented, by J. Thompson, London, 1874, 4 vols. quarto.