China -- Social life and customs

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• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs

• Among the Sons of Han: Notes of a Six Year's Residence in Various Parts of China and Formosa (London: Tinsley brothers, 1881), by Mrs. Thomas Francis Hughes (page images at Google; US access only)
• Beyond the Bund (New York: Payson and Clarke, c1927), by Philip Kerby (page images at HathiTrust)
• China and the Chinese, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
• The Chinese Business Puzzle, by Andrew M. Williamson (HTML with commentary at HowTo)
• Chinese Sketches, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
• A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1910), by Mrs. Hugh Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of a Shanghai Griffin, by Jay Denby (illustrated HTML at talesofoldchina.com)
• My Chinese Days (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1918), by Gulielma Fell Alsop (page images at Drexel)
• Peking Dust (New York: The Century Co., 1919), by Ellen Newbold La Motte (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Why and How: Why the Chinese Emigrate, and the Means they Adopt for the Purpose of Reaching America, by Russell Herman Conwell (page images at MOA)

• The Vermilion Gate: A Novel of a Far Land (New York: The John Day Company, c1953), by Lin Yutang (page images at HathiTrust)

• Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, by Lu Xun, trans. by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang (illustrated HTML at Eldritch Press)
• Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (2 volumes; London: T. De la Rue and Co., 1880), by Songling Pu, ed. by Herbert Allen Giles
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Games Hong Kong People Play: A Social Psychology of the Hong Kong Chinese, by George Adams (HTML in Hong Kong)
• Living and Working in Hong Kong, by Rachel Wright (HTML with commentary at HowTo)

• Three Years in Tibet: With the Original Japanese Illustrations (1909), by Ekai Kawaguchi (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ancient China Simplified (London: Chapman and Hall, 1908), by Edward Harper Parker (Gutenberg text)
• China: A Country Study, ed. by Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan (HTML at LOC)
• The Chinese Empire: A Sequel to "Recollections of a Journey Through tartary and Thibet" (new edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859), by Evariste Régis Huc (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants (revised edition, 2 volumes; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), by S. Wells Williams
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• My Chinese Note Book (New York: E. P. Dytton; London: Methuen, c1904), by Susan Mary Keppel Townley
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Story of China (c1922), by R. Van Bergen (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)

• Serindia: Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China (5 volumes, 1921), by Aurel Stein (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)

• Crisis in the Taiwan Strait (1997), ed. by James R. Lilley and Chuck Downs (PDF page images at ndu.edu)

• Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, c2012), ed. by Franck Billé, Grégory Delaplace, and Caroline Humphrey
  • Flash at openbookpublishers.com and scribd.com
  • page images at Google

• Beyond Modernization: Chinese Roots for Global Awareness, ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and George F. McLean (HTML at crvp.org)
• The Civilization of China, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
• Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, and Chinese Culture, by Tang Yi-Jie (HTML at crvp.org)
• The Humanization of Technology and Chinese Culture, ed. by Tomonobu Imamichi, Wang Miaoyang, and Liu Fangtong (HTML at crvp.org)
• Oriental Religions and their Relation to Universal Religion: China (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1878), by Samuel Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Chinese Ally (1944), by Owen Lattimore and Eleanor Holgate Lattimore
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Problem of China, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)

• New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening (second edition), by Arthur Judson Brown
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Newfoundland to Cochin, China, By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffat Vincent, contrib. by Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The China Boom and its Discontents (c2005), ed. by Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• China: Linking Markets for Growth (c2007), ed. by Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• China: The Next Twenty Years of Reform and Development (c2010), ed. by Ross Garnaut, Jane Golley, and Ligang Song (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• China's New Place in a World in Crisis: Economic, Geopolitical and Environmental Dimensions (c2009), ed. by Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song, and Wing Thye Woo (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Court Life in China, by Isaac Taylor Headland
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Strategic Trends in China (1998), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and Ronald N. Montaperto (HTML at gpo.gov)

• Beyond the Bund (New York: Payson and Clarke, c1927), by Philip Kerby (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Broken Journey: Wanderings From the Hoang-Ho to the Island of Saghalien and the Upper Reaches of the Amur River (London: T. W. Laurie Ltd., ca.1919), by Mary Gaunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cathay and the Way Thither, ed. by Henry Yule (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)
• China Bound: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC (1987 edition), by Karen Turner-Gottschang and Linda Reed (page images with commentary at NAP)
• China, the Long-Lived Empire (New York: The Century Co., 1900), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)
• China Through the Stereoscope: A Journey Through the Dragon Empire at the Time of the Boxer Uprising (c1901), by James Ricalton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chinese Empire: A Sequel to "Recollections of a Journey Through tartary and Thibet" (new edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859), by Evariste Régis Huc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descripción de los Reinos, Costas, Puertos e Islas que hay Desde el Cabo de Buena Esperanza Hasta los Leyquios; Libro que Trata del Descubrimiento y Principio del Estrecho que se Llama de Magallanes; y Descrición de Parte del Japón (in Spanish; first part variously attributed to Barbosa or Magalhaes (Magellan); Madrid: Estab. Tip. de Torrent y Compañía, 1920), ed. by Antonio Blázquez y Delgado Aguilera, contrib. by Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães, and Ginés de Mafra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1910), by Mrs. Hugh Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fourteen Months in Canton (London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Mrs. John Henry Gray
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by Isabella L. Bird (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by Isabella L. Bird (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Houseboat Days in China, by J. O. P. Bland (illustrated HTML at talesofoldchina.com)
• Journal of Three Voyages Along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832, & 1833, With Notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands, by Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff (PDF files in Singapore)
• A Naturalist in Western China with Vasculum, Camera, and Gun: Being Some Account of Eleven Years' Travel, Exploration, and Observation in the More Remote Parts of the Flowery Kingdom (2 volumes; New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1913), by Ernest Henry Wilson, contrib. by Charles Sprague Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newfoundland to Cochin, China, By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffat Vincent, contrib. by Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On a Chinese Screen (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by W. Somerset Maugham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Pocket Guide to China (1943), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division (PDF at archive.org)
• The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876, by John Rogers Haddad (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)
• The Story of China (c1922), by R. Van Bergen (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)
• Travels and Adventures of an Officer's Wife in India, China, and New Zealand (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1864), by Mrs. Elizabeth Muter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China (2 volumes; London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, n.d.), by Evariste Régis Huc, trans. by William Hazlitt
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China During the Years 1844-5-6 (2 volumes in 1; Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1900), by Evariste Régis Huc, trans. by William Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wanderings in China (new edition; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1888), by C. F. Gordon Cumming
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Woman in China (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca.1914), by Mary Gaunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: J. Murray, 1900), by Isabella L. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Year in China; and a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, When Homeward Bound, on Board the Rebel Pirate Florida (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1864), by Martha Noyes Williams, contrib. by William Cullen Bryant (page images at Google)

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