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PREFACE THE following Lectures ,vere delivered during March, 1902, at Colulnbia University, in the city of N e,v York, to inaugurate the foundation by General IIorace V. Carpentier of the Dean Lung Chair of Chinese. By the express desire of the authorities of Columbia University these Lectures are now printed, and they 111ay serve to record an important and interesting departure in Oriental studies. It is not pretended that Chinese scholarship will be in any way advanced by this publication. The L~ctures, slight in thenlselves, were never Ineant for advanced students, but rather to dra,v attentio'n to, and possibly arouse some interest in, a subject which ,vill occupy a larger space in the future than in the present or in the past. CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, April 15, 1902. HERBERT A. GILES
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CONTENTS; LECTURE I; THE CHINESE LANGUAGE; Its Importance -Its Difficulty -The Colloquial- Dialects; -" Mandarin" - Absence of GrammarIllustrations; - Pidgin-English - Scarcity of Vocables-; The Tones-Coupled 'Vords-The Written; Language - The Indicators - Picture Characters; -Pictures of Ideas-The Phonetics-Some Faulty; PAGE; Analyses 3; LECTURE II; A CHINESE LIBRARY; The Cambridge (Eng) Library- (A) The Confucian; Canon - (B) Dynastic History - The" Historical; Record " -The" Mirror of History" -Biography; - Encyclopredias - How arranged - Collections; of Reprints - The Imperial Statutes - The Penal; Code - (C) Geography - Topography - An Old; Volume-Account of Strange Nations - CD) Poetry; - Novels - Romance of the Three Kingdoms; - Plays - (E) Dictionaries - The Concordance; - Its Arrangement - Imperial Catalogue - Senior; Classics 37; vii LECTURE III; DEMOCRATIC CHINA; The Emperor - Provincial Government - CircuitsPrefectures; - Magistracies - Headboroughs -; The People - The lIagistrate - Other Provincial; Officials - The Prefect - The Intendant of Circuit; (Tao-t' ai) - Viceroy and Governor - TaxationMen