Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 112
of Switzerland and the Tyrol.As to the village, it is by no meanslacking in organisation. Every villageconsists of a group or groups of familieswith their head men, and over the headmen are the district magistrates. Thefamily is the centre of everything. Themembers are bound together by… … A CHINESE VILLAGE, A FARMHOUSE IN THE HAKKA COUNTRY, SOUTHERN CHINA. An illustration of the Patriarchal system.When a son marries and brings homehis wife, he literally brings her home—that is, to his fathers house ; but a newgable is added to those in existence, andthe house increased for the…
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