A glossary of reference on subjects connected with the Far East / by Herbert A. Giles.

  • Herbert Giles
Date:
1886
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Credit: A glossary of reference on subjects connected with the Far East / by Herbert A. Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    extra-provincial, and sucli words^ and should be spelt accordingly, FA HSIEIST. A Chinese Buddhist priest^ who in the year 399 A.D. travelled from China to India overland. He visited Patna, Benares, Buddha-Gaya, and other famous spots; obtaining copies of some of the sacred books of Buddhism, and returning to China by sea, via Ceylon and Sumatra, in the year 417 A.E). FACTOBIES, THE. So called from their being the re¬ sidence oi factors, or agents of the East lodia Company, and not because anything was manufactured there. The former residences of foreigners in the western suburbs of Canton, to which they were strictly confined. ^^The ‘‘ factories were a series of 13 hongs {q.v.). They were “ placed side by side of each other, forming as it were a ** row or terrace fronting the river, hut each Hong con- sisted of a series of buildings placed one behind the ‘‘ other from the river backwards, for a depth of from 550 ** to 600 feet to the first street running parallel with the '^river.^^ 8. W. Williams. FAI TEE : —make haste ! [Cantonese.] FAI-T'ING: ^ —fast boat. A small passenger boat in use at Canton. FA-KEE or FA-KI: 4^ ^—the flowery flag. A com¬ mon Chinese name for the United States, alluding to the “ stars and stripes ” of the national standard. FAN DANCE (of Japan). The dancer, a girl of about thirteen, is elaborately dressed as a page. Confined by the closely-folded robe, the feet and legs are not much used, the feet, indeed, never leaving the ground. Time is marked by undulations of the body, waving the arms, and deft manipulation of a fan. One movement succeeds
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