Download or read book The Chinese Dragon Classic Reprint written by L. Newton Hayes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Chinese Dragon Chinese geomancy for ages has looked to the dragon as a means of determining the fates and fortunes of the Sons of Han. Until very recently comparatively few Chinese would build a house or bury a corpse without first consulting a geomancer, who would. In one way or another, refer to its probable influence upon his action. It is, moreover, a generally accepted belief that every twelfth hour, day, month, and year of the lunar calendar are under the dragon's dominating control. Chinese history records scores of appearances of the king of beasts through the four thousand or more years since the age of the three mythical rulers. Appearances of the dragon are connected with the stories of many prominent characters of China's past. Perhaps the most noteworthy ref erence is one which states that two dragons as guards of honor visited the home of Confucius on the day that great sage was born. These frequent references to the dragon are considered, for the most part, by the majority of Chinese scholars quite as authentic as the statements about the famous worthies themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Knight of the Chinese Dragon Classic Reprint written by James Cloyd Bowman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Knight of the Chinese Dragon These facts find expression in the youthful Knight who haltingly treads the measures of this romance. Naive and visionary, he is not aware that he can never stake his dreams to a sod foundation. He treads upon thin air and believes it granite. He knocks his head against the merest vapor and believes it adamant. Like every romantic poet, who has weathered in our unkindly climes, he rapidly frets his soul to tatters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Knight of the Chinese Dragon written by James Cloyd Bowman and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Under the Chinese Dragon written by F. S. Brereton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Under the Chinese Dragon: A Tale of Mongolia Mr. Ebenezer Clayhill was a man who impressed his personality upon one, so that those who had once obtained but a passing glimpse of him could not fail but recognise him, however long afterwards. 'Fust it's his nose what strikes yer, ' had declared old Isaac Webster, when ensconced with his bosom friends of an evening down in the snug parlour of the 'Three Pigeons.' 'It's just the most almighty one as ever I seed, and I've seed a power of noses, I have, Mr. Jarney.' He sniffed and looked across at that individual, as if he challenged him to disprove the statement, or even to doubt it; for Jarney was a cross-grained fellow, an old weather-beaten boatman, into whose composition quite a considerable quantity of salt seemed to have been absorbed. The man was short in stature and in manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book In the Claws of the Dragon Classic Reprint written by George Soulie De Morant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In the Claws of the Dragon He was receiving the guests for the inauguration of his newly built Chinese palace in the Rue de Babylon; and be examined them critically. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book St George and the Chinese Dragon written by Henry Bathurst Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blue Dragon written by Kirk Munroe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Blue Dragon: A Tale of Recent Adventure in China The blue dragon, chosen as a title for this story, is the national emblem of China, adopted as such by a desire to atter and propitiate that spirit of evil considered to be the most powerful. As the dragon is believed 'to be big enough and strong enough to overcome and devour all the other Wicked genii who continually vex Chinese life, the Wise men of the Black - haired People thought it best to have him on their side, and consequently accorded him the highest honor in their power to bestow. As we of America chose the eagle, strong est of visible air spirits, for our national emblem, so the Chinese chose the most powerful of invisible spirits in whose existence they believe as firmly as we do in the existence of things that we can see, hear, or feel. In the story thus entitled, I have endeavored to give an idea. Of What China has been, is, and may become through education and development, how She is regarded, and how her people are being treated by other nations, and what causes She has for resentment against those Who are taking ad vantage of her feebleness to despoil her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book A Time of Golden Dragons written by Song Nan Zhang and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the ages, the dragon has been an important symbol for the Chinese. A time of Golden Dragons is the most auspicious possible. In fascinating text and beautiful paintings, Song Nan and Hao Yu Zhang trace the dragon’s history. Perhaps inspired by giant crocodiles, the image of the dragon affects every aspect of life in China, including the marking of dragon years, the flying of dragon kites, and the eating of dragon cakes at dragon boat races. A splendid introduction to the richness of Chinese culture, this is a book to cherish this special year and for years to come.
Download or read book The Door of the Double Dragon written by Hector Blanding and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Door of the Double Dragon: A Romance of the China of Yesterday and to-Day Jerry, a youth of some sixteen years, large framed. Heavy j awed, laughed mockingly, and rolled the snow about the jagged stone all the tighter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Lion and Dragon in Northern China Classic Reprint written by R. F. Johnston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lion and Dragon in Northern China Cinderella beautiful and presentable before any Fairy Prince can be expected to find in her the lady of his dreams: and the Godmother has certainly not yet made her appearance, unless, indeed, the British Colonial Office is presumptuous enough to put forward a claim (totally unjustifiable) to that position. By no means do I, in the absence of the Fairy Prince, propose to ride knight-like into the lists of political controversy wearing the gage of SO forlorn a damsel in-distress as Weihaiwei. Let me explain, dropping metaphor, that the following pages will contain but slender contribution to the vexed questions of the strategic Importance of the port or of its potential value as a depot of commerce. Are not such things set down in the books of the official scribes? Nor will they constitute a guide-book that might help exiled Europeans to decide upon the merits of Weihaiwei as a resort for white-cheeked children from Shanghai and Hongkong, or as affording a dumping-ground for brass-bands and bathing-machines. On these matters, too, information is not lacking. As for the position of Weihaiwei on the playground of international politics, it may be that Foreign Ministers have not yet ceased to regard it as an interesting toy to be played with when sterner excitements are lacking. But it will be the aim of these pages to avoid as far as possible any incursion into the realm of politics: for it is not with Weihaiwei as a diplo matic shuttlecock that they profess to deal, but with Weihaiwe1 as the ancestral home of many thousands of Chinese peasants, who present a stolid and almost changeless front to all the storms and uctuations of politics and war. Books on China have appeared in large numbers during the past few years, and the production of another seems to demand some kind of apology. Yet it cannot be said that as a field for the ethnologist, the historian, the student of comparative religion and of folk-lore, the sociologist or the moral philosopher, China has been worked out. The demand for books that profess to deal in a broad and general way with China and its people as a whole has probably, indeed, been fully satisfied: but China is too vast a country to be adequately described by any one writer or group of writers, and the more we know about China and its people the more strongly we shall feel that future workers must confine themselves to less ambitious objects of study than the whole Empire. The pioneer who with his prismatic compass passes rapidly over half a continent has nearly finished all he can be expected to do; he must soon give place to the surveyor who with plane-table and theodolite will content himself with mapping a section of a single province. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Dragon Image and Demon written by Hampden C. Dubose and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dragon, Image, and Demon: Or the Three Religions of China The suggestion is made to younger missionaries that they orally translate some of the chapters of this book with their teachers, so as to familiarise themselves with the local idolatry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Language of the Dragon written by Gregogy Chiang and published by Cheng & Tsui. This book was released on 1998 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cross and the Dragon written by Benjamin C. Henry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cross and the Dragon: Or Light in the Broad East The Empire of China presents a country so vast and diversified, a people so numerous and peculiar; con stant intercourse with people from other lands is opening up its inland domain so extensively; while the studies and researches of scholars and specialists are unfolding such masses of information concerning the history, cus toms, and resources of the land, - that it is impossible, within the compass of a single volume, to take even a cursory glance at the whole; the time has come when it must be studied in sections. In pursuance of this plan, the southern portion of the Empire, in one particular feature of progress, is treated of in the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Dragon Image and Demon written by Hampden C. DuBose and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Fairy Tales written by Herbert Allen Giles and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of delightful Chinese fairytales. It contains twelve captivating short stories that will intrigue readers of any age and keep them connected during each tale. This collection will be a perfect way to develop imagination and reading habits in children.
Download or read book Nian The Chinese New Year Dragon written by Virginia Loh-Hagan and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mei hates springtime. Why? Because it's only in the spring that Nian, a fierce dragon, is able to leave his mountain prison under the sea to terrorize the local village. When the villagers hear the rumblings of Nian's hungry stomach, they know that winter has ended and spring is coming. But this year on the night before the first day of spring, a magical warrior visits Mei in her dreams. He tells Mei that it is her destiny to face and defeat Nian. But she must do it within 15 days or the dragon will be free forever. Author Virginia Loh-Hagan (PoPo's Lucky Chinese New Year) gives this retelling of the Nian legend an original twist, while explaining the origins of Chinese New Year traditions.
Download or read book Chinese Mythology written by Tom Daning and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces Chinese mythology, describing the four dragons' sacrifice which formed the four great rivers of China.
