The life of Dr. Arthur Jackson of Manchuria / by Alfred J. Costain ; with a preface by William Watson.

  • Costain, Alfred James, 1881-1963.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: The life of Dr. Arthur Jackson of Manchuria / by Alfred J. Costain ; with a preface by William Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ways of dress, and describes their adornments with scientific precision. It was rather a quaint sight. The majority of women out here do their hair somewhat in the manner I have tried to sketch. The accompanying diagram is beyond the copyist's art to reproduce. As you can understand, these hoops are just the place to stick bits of coloured ribbons in, and, as the babies had also bits of ribbon stuck on what hair they had, it all reminded me rather of a May-day procession in Liverpool. He set himself ardently to the task of learning the language. The difficulty of Chinese is proverbial, and is largely due to the tones which play so prominent a part in the differentia- tion of words. French can be spoken without a Parisian accent; English tourists occasionally do so speak it. A correct accent is an added grace. But to mispronounce Chinese creates not amusement but confusion. What you say depends on how you say it. You make a mistake in inflection, and as a result you have used a word which may be ridiculously remote from the one you intended. For example, ma^ [i.e. in the first tone] means ' mother'; ma*