China : the dragon s ascent / Christopher Cullen.
Title from jacket: Dragon's ascent : the civilisation the world forgot.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Forging the future -- Two way traffic -- Power to predict -- History as a mirror -- Feast or famine -- Family values -- The health culture -- The dragon ascends.

General overview of China’s history both ancient and modern (Zheng He ship building diagram, Jesuit mathematics and astronomy, books and printing, pottery-making, salt industry, food, religion, etc.). Amusing error on p. 213 misidentifying Matteo Ricci (the image is of Athanasius Kircher). The volume appears to be a companion to the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences 8-DVD  series of the same name.

The Classical period. The metal bound box -- Hexagrams -- Songs and poems -- The battle of Chin and Ch'u -- Confucius -- Chuang Tzu. The Han Dynasty. The debate on salt and iron -- Rules for visiting -- Social relations -- Two women -- The interaction of yin and yang -- Local cults -- Uprisings. The era of division and the T'ang dynasty. Ko Hung's autobiography -- Dedicatory colophons -- A woman's hundred years -- The examination system -- Household registration -- Slaves -- Family division. The Sung and Yuan dynasties. Book of rewards and punishments -- Precepts of the Perfect Truth Taoist sect -- Ancestral rites -- The shrew -- The problems of women -- Rules for the Fan lineage's charitable estate -- The attractions of the capital -- The mutual responsibility system -- On farming -- A schedule for learning -- Kuo Pi's diary. The Ming dynasty. Proclamations of the Hung-wu emperor.

Laws against theft and robbery -- Maxims for daily life -- The dragon boat race -- Village ordinances -- Routine commercial procedures -- What the weaver said -- Tenants -- Shi Chin, the nine-dragoned -- Merchants in the Ming -- Family instructions -- The spite of Lotus -- Li Chih's letters. The Ch'ing dynasty. Parables and ghost stories -- Proverbs about heaven -- Almanac -- Taxes and labor service -- Permanent property -- Lan Ting-yüan's casebook -- Exhortations on ceremony and deference -- Village organization -- The village headman and the new teacher -- Boat people -- Infant protection society -- Mid-century rebels -- The conditions and activities of workers -- Marriage contracts -- Genealogy rules -- Families and lineages of Yen-yüan county.

The early twentieth century. The movement against footbinding -- The new prefect -- Rural education -- The Shanghai Builders' Guild -- On freeing slave girls -- My old home -- The Hai-feng Peasant Association -- The dog-meat general -- The general strike -- Funeral processions -- My wife and child -- Birth customs -- The life of beggars -- Spring silkworms -- The orange grower and the old sailor. The People's Republic. Land reform -- Hu Feng's letters -- The state budget and the standard of living -- A new young man at the organization department -- Developing agricultural production -- The correct handling of love, marriage, and family problems -- The spring festival -- Lei Feng, Chairman Mao's good fighter -- Housing in Shanghai -- Red Guards -- My accusations -- The nature of diseases -- Modern models for family life and marriage -- Population control and the four modernizations.

Part One. The City in History -- Introduction : Urban Development in Imperial China / G. William Skinner -- The Cosmology of the Chinese City / Arthur F. Wright -- The Morphology of Walled Capitals / Sen-dou Chang -- The Transformation of Nanking, 1350-1400 / F.W. Mote -- The Formation of Cities : Initiative and Motivation in Building Three Walled Cities in Taiwan / Harry J. Lamley -- Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China / G. William Skinner.

Part Two. The City in Space -- Introduction : Urban and Rural in Chinese Society / G. William Skinner -- Cities and the Hierarchy of Local Systems / G. William Skinner -- The Yamen and Urban Administration / John R. Watt -- Ningpo and Its Hinterland / Yoshinobu Shiba -- Market Towns and Waterways : The County of Shang-hai from 1480 to 1910 / Mark Elvin -- Academies and Urban Systems in Kwangtung / Tilemann Grimm -- Extended Kinship in the Traditional City / Hugh D.R. Baker

Part Three. The City as a Social System -- Introduction : Urban Social Structure in Ch'ing China / G. William Skinner -- Early Ch'ing Guilds / Peter J. Golas -- School-Temple and City God / Stephen Feuchtwang -- Urban Social Control / Sybille van der Sprenkel -- Social Structure in a Nineteenth-Century Taiwanese Port City / Donald R. Deglopper -- Neighborhood Cult Associations in Traditional Tainan / Kristofer M. Schipper.

Early Confucian discourse on family rites -- Redesigning ancestral rites for a new elite in the eleventh century -- Combating heterodoxy and vulgarity in weddings and funerals -- Chu Hsi's authorship of the Family rituals -- Orthodoxy of Chu Hsi's Family rituals -- Revised versions of the Family rituals written during the Ming Dynasty -- Intellectuals' reevaluation of the Family rituals in the Ch'ing Dynasty -- Confucian texts and the performance of rituals.

Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise : enrichie des cartes générales et particulieres de ces pays, de la carte générale et des cartes particulieres du Thibet, & de la Corée; & ornée d'un grand nombre de figures & de vignettes gravées en tailledouce / Par le P.J.B. Du Halde ... Avec un avertissement préliminaire, oú l'on rend compte des principales améliorations qui ont été faites dans cette nouv. éd.
The maps to accompany this work are to be found in J.B.B. d'Anville's Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet. La Haye, 1737. cf. Henri Cordier, Dict. bibl. des ouvrages relatifs à l'Empire chinois, 1881, t. ℓ. p. 31.

The Ricci Institute's copy of this important text is from the Bibliotheca Major Zi-Ka-Wei in Fr. F. Rouleau's collection. There are several online venues, studies and researches on this title.
See: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).
See also: ECHO.
See also: Phenix.

Local access dig.pdf. [Duhalde1-4.pdf]
Online editions: Internet Archive.
Online: Gallica.
Online: Google Books t.1-3.
Online: Google Books t.4.

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Keywords:Shengyu 聖諭 ; filial piety, harmony between brothers, neighbors, thrift, husbandry (agriculture), necessity of schools, education of youth, rites and ceremonies, heterodox doctrines, Sixteen apothegms of Kangxi, family, propriety. meritorious deeds, Three Precepts (Sanjieming 三戒命), Daoism, rewards and punishments, daojiao 道教, Taishang ganyin pian 太上感應篇, Buddhism, retribution, Yuli chaozhuan, Ten Courts of Hell, Shidian yanjun 十殿閻君, annual festivals, New Year's, betrothal and marriage, death and funerals.

Manuel des superstitions chinoises, ou, Petit indicateur des superstitions les plus communes en Chine / par le P.H. Doré, S.J.
Preface to first edition dated 1926.
Includes table of contents, index.
"Ex Libris Alphonse Maillet, Shanghai, 1941" [collection uniformly bound]
1926 edition (lacks Chinese characters) available online at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Les classiques des sciences sociales.

Illustrated edition online at Chine ancienne.
Library has 2 copies, one in Maillet binding, the other in original cover (Rare Book Cabinet)

Introduction -- Ancient China -- The early empire -- Acts of grace in medieval China: A.D. 220-907 -- Acts of grace in Sung China -- Late imperial China: the significance of change -- The uses of amnesty -- A note on previous studies.

Riyong xuzhi 日用須知 / Shangwu yinshuguan bianyisuo bianzuan 商務印書舘編譯所編纂.
民國15 [1926].

Sexual life in ancient China : a preliminary survey of Chinese sex and society from ca. 1500 B.C. till 1644 A.D. / by R.H. van Gulik.
"Indian and Chinese sexual mysticism": p. 339-359.
Includes bibliographical references.
Indexes in English, Chinese, and Japanese.

Contents: 1. Banqiao zaji 板橋雜記 : [3卷] / Yu Huai zhu 余懷著 -- 2. Xu Banqiao zaji 續板橋雜記 : [3卷] / Zhuquanjushi zhu 珠泉居士著 -- 3. Qinhuai wenjianlu 秦淮聞見錄 / Xueqiaojushi zhu 雪樵居士著 -- 4. Qinhuai huafanglu 秦淮畫舫錄 : [2卷] / Penghuasheng zhu 捧花生著 -- 5. Huafang yutan 畫舫餘譚 / Penghuasheng zhu 捧花生著 -- 6. Bai men xin liu ji 白門新柳記 / Xu Yu zhu 許豫著 -- 7. Wumen huafanglu 吳門畫舫錄 / Xixishanren bian 西溪山人編 -- 8. Wumen huafang xu lu 吳門畫舫續錄 / Gezhongsheng bian 箇中生編 -- 9. Chao Jia fengyueji 潮嘉風月記 / Yu Jiao zhu 俞蛟著 -- 10. Yantai huashilu 燕臺花事錄 / Shuxiqiaoye bian 蜀西樵也編 -- 11. Zhuxi huashi xiao lu 竹西花事小錄 / Fenlitaxingzhe bian 芬利它行者編 -- 12. Haizou yeyoulu 海陬冶遊錄 : [3卷] : Yulu 餘錄 / Wang Tao zhu 王韜著.
At head of title: 仿古字版.
Includes prefatory material.
民國25 [1936].

Contents: 1. Banqiao zaji 板橋雜記 : [3卷] / Yu Huai zhu 余懷著 -- 2. Xu Banqiao zaji 續板橋雜記 : [3卷] / Zhuquanjushi zhu 珠泉居士著 -- 3. Qinhuai wenjianlu 秦淮聞見錄 / Xueqiaojushi zhu 雪樵居士著 -- 4. Qinhuai huafanglu 秦淮畫舫錄 : [2卷] / Penghuasheng zhu 捧花生著 -- 5. Huafang yutan 畫舫餘譚 / Penghuasheng zhu 捧花生著 -- 6. Bai men xin liu ji 白門新柳記 / Xu Yu zhu 許豫著 -- 7. Wumen huafanglu 吳門畫舫錄 / Xixishanren bian 西溪山人編 -- 8. Wumen huafang xu lu 吳門畫舫續錄 / Gezhongsheng bian 箇中生編 -- 9. Chao Jia fengyueji 潮嘉風月記 / Yu Jiao zhu 俞蛟著 -- 10. Yantai huashilu 燕臺花事錄 / Shuxiqiaoye bian 蜀西樵也編 -- 11. Zhuxi huashi xiao lu 竹西花事小錄 / Fenlitaxingzhe bian 芬利它行者編 -- 12. Haizou yeyoulu 海陬冶遊錄 : [3卷] : Yulu 餘錄 / Wang Tao zhu 王韜著.

Previously published by Shanghai Shijie shuju 上海世界書局 in 1936 under title Zhangtai jisheng mingzhu congkan 章台紀勝名著叢刊.
民國62 [1973].

Zhongguo minqing fengsu 中國民情風俗 / Wang Shizhen zhu 王世禎著
甲：喪葬篇
乙：異術篇
Keywords: 城隍，鬼魂，驅鬼，上墳，冥神，放陰，趕屍， 普渡，回煞，人鬼通婚， 蠱.
Bibliography: p. 212-213.