Ways that are Dark : Some Chapters on Chinese Etiquette and Social Procedure

Ways that are Dark: Some Chapters on Chinese Etiquette and Social Procedure by W. Gilbert Walshe Author: Walshe, Gilbert W.

Small 8vo. (5" x 7.5") c.1906. Walshe, Gilbert W. Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore & Yokohama. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd. Blue cloth, gilt spine and vignette on cover. With 13 plates from photographs depicting the revelation of the numerous rituals that provide the fabric of Chinese interaction; the plates depict such procedures as tea drinking, bowing, the kowtow, and four gentlemen playing the game of "Morra." Bookplate of V. Chiere.

From the Web: W. Gilbert Walshe was the editorial secretary of the “Society for the Diffusion of Christian and General Knowledge among the Chinese,” and a long-term resident of China in the last years of the last dynasty. Foreigners, often missionaries, annoyed Walshe by their disregard of Chinese etiquette, a disregard based more often on ignorance than on boorishness, and he was happy to undertake a commission to try to improve their behavior. The Society for the Diffusion of Christian and General Knowledge Among the Chinese or SDCK (Chinese: 廣學會; pinyin: Guangxuehui) was an organization established in Shanghai in the late-19th century to communicate Western concepts of Christianity and science among the Chinese. In 1887, the SDCK was founded in Shanghai and led by a group of American and British Methodist missionaries including Young John Allen, William Alexander Parsons Martin, Timothy Richard and Alexander Williamson. Its English name was changed in 1906 to the Christian Literature Society for China, reflecting in part one of its major sources of funds, the Christian Literature Society in Glasgow and in other parts of the world. The SDCK endeavored to communicate Western concepts of Christianity and science among the Chinese through the translation of materials into the Chinese language. Its members also sought to prompt legal and institutional reform in China.

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