Joseph Edkins

First Published in 2000. This is Volume VI of six of the Oriental series looking at Arabic History and Culture. It was written in 1922, and presents discussions around the religion of Buddhism in China along with Tausim, Confucianism and Buddhist art. It highlights the Chinese Buddhists who contented for the immortality of the soul in the Northern Doctrines, against the followers of Confucius, that gave Chinese Buddhism a base and energy for the founding of new schools.

A Volume of Sketches, Historical, Descriptive and Critical

Chinese Buddhism

Bodleian Library

A Catalogue of Chinese Works in the Bodleian Library

Banking and Prices in China

Introduction to the Study of the Chinese Characters

A Volume of Sketches, Historical, Descriptive, and Critical

The Early Spread of Religious Ideas Especially in the Far East

As Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect

A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. China Branch

Notices of the Character and Writings of Meh Tsi

Excerpt from Opium: Historical Note, or the Poppy in China Fullest details, where found; Mode of preparing Opium in the sixteenth century; Medical use of Opium in the sixteenth century; Prohibition of Foreign trade encouraged Native production; Kung Yün-Lin's prescription; Medical use of Poppy bracts of red and white varieties of Papaver somniferum; Golden elixir pill; Native account of Foreign.trade before the prohibition; Bad effects of prohibition; Good effects of permission to trade; Duties levied; Tariff of A.D. 1589; Tariff of A.D. 1615; Li Shih-Chen's Materia Medica; Poppy as a flower; Another account of the mode of obtaining Opium from the Poppy; Résumé; Opium, in Java in 1629; Bontius' opinion of Opium; Opium-smoking arose from tobacco-smoking; Tobacco-smoking, when introduced; Prohibition of tobacco-smoking; Manchu prohibition of tobacco-smoking; Spread of tobacco-smoking; Opium-smoking in Formosa; Kæmpfer's Amænitales exoticæ; Tobacco: Kæmpfer's account; Hookah or water pipe; Summary of Kæmpfer's account; Object of the water pipe; Cigars; How Opium is made in Persia; Preparation of Opium; Kæmpfer's visit to Java in 1688; Mention of use of Opium; First Opium-smoking shops; Medical use of Opium in 1723; Early Opium-smoking in Formosa; Opium-smoking came to Formosa from Java; Another account of early Opium-smoking in Formosa; Prohibitory edict of 1729; Spread of Opium-smoking in the eighteenth century 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.

Opium: Historical Note, or the Poppy in China

Chinese Buddhism; a Volume of Sketches, Historical, Descriptive, and Critical

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Progressive Lessons in the Chinese Spoken Language

An Attempt to Show that the Languages of Europe and Asia Have a Common Origin

China's Place in Philology

Grammar of Colloquial Chinese --.

A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese, as Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect

A Grammar of the Chinese Colloquial Language, Commonly Called the Mandarin Dialect

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