China -- Social life and customs
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912
- China -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1949
- China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- China -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction
- Guangdong Sheng (China) -- Social life and customs
- Hong Kong (China) -- Social life and customs
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social life and customs
- Hmong (Asian people) -- China -- Social life and customs
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China: Promise or Threat? A Comparison of Cultures (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2017), by Horst Jürgen Helle (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)- Tides From the West: A Chinese Autobiography (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: G. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947), by Chiang Monlin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ways That are Dark: The Truth About China (1934), by Ralph Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
- Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1990), by Ann Beth Waltner (PDF and EPub at Hawaii)
- 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)
- Chinese Sketches, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
- Letters of a Shanghai Griffin, by Jay Denby (illustrated HTML at talesofoldchina.com)
- My Chinese Days (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1918), by Gulielma Fell Alsop
- Peking Dust (New York: The Century Co., 1919), by Ellen N. La Motte (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Beyond the Bund (New York: Payson and Clarke, c1927), by Philip Kerby (page images at HathiTrust)
- Letters From China and Japan (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1920), by John Dewey and Alice Chipman Dewey, ed. by Evelyn Dewey (Gutenberg text)
- Why and How: Why the Chinese Emigrate, and the Means they Adopt for the Purpose of Reaching America, by Russell H. Conwell (page images at MOA)
- China and the Chinese, 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)
- Pagoda Shadows: Studies From Life in China (third edition; Boston: W. G. Corthell, 1885), by Adele M. Fielde (multiple formats at archive.org)
- When I Was a Boy in China (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1887), by Yan Phou Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1918), by Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews
- Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China (unillustrated; 1918), by Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews (Gutenberg text)
- The Vermilion Gate: A Novel of a Far Land (New York: The John Day Company, c1953), by Lin Yutang (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chinese Tales: or, The Wonderful Adventures of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam, Related by Himself to Divert the Sultana, Upon the Celebration of Her Nuptials (second edition, with some added thoughts on transmigration; London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1740), by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, trans. by Thomas Stackhouse, contrib. by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (2 volumes; London: T. De la Rue and Co., 1880), by Songling Pu, ed. by Herbert Allen Giles
- Strange Stories From the Lodge of Leisures (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Songling Pu, trans. by G. Soulié de Morant
- Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, by Lu Xun, trans. by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang (illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org)
- Shen of the Sea: A Book for Children (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1925), by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, illust. by Else Hasselriis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Country Life in South China, the Sociology of Familism: Volume I, Phenix Village, Kwantung, China (only volume published; New York: Teachers college, Columbia University, 1925), by Daniel Harrison Kulp (page images at HathiTrust)
- Games Hong Kong People Play: A Social Psychology of the Hong Kong Chinese, by George Adams (HTML in Hong Kong)
- Three Years in Tibet: With the Original Japanese Illustrations (1909), by Ekai Kawaguchi (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Story of the Miao (London: H. Hooks, 1919), by Samuel Pollard, contrib. by F. J. Dymond (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: China- China: A Country Study (fourth edition, 1988), ed. by Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan (multiple formats at loc.gov)
- 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
- My Chinese Note Book (New York: E. P. Dytton; London: Methuen, c1904), by Susan Mary Keppel Townley
- The Oldest and the Newest Empire: China and the United States (Pittsburgh: R. S. Davis and Co., 1877), by William Speer (multiple formats at Google)
- The Story of China (c1922), by R. Van Bergen (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Ancient China Simplified (London: Chapman and Hall, 1908), by Edward Harper Parker (Gutenberg text)
- Chinese Grave-Sculptures of the Han Period (London: E. L. Morice; et al., 1911), by Berthold Laufer
- 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)
- A Chinese Biographical Dictionary (New York: Paragon Book Gallery, ca. 1898), by Herbert Allen Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
- China's First Hundred (Pullman, WA: State College of Washington, 1942), by Thomas E. La Fargue (page images at HathiTrust)
- Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2012), ed. by Franck Billé, Grégory Delaplace, and Caroline Humphrey
- Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Thomas S. Mullaney, James Leibold, Stéphane Gros, and Eric Vanden Bussche (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)
- The Humanization of Technology and Chinese Culture (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1998), ed. by Tomonobu Imamichi, Wang Miaoyang, and Liu Fangtong (PDF at crvp.org)
- Leibniz and Confucianism: The Search for Accord (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1977), by D. E. Mungello (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
- Beyond Modernization: Chinese Roots for Global Awareness (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
- Our Chinese Ally (1944), by Owen Lattimore and Eleanor Holgate Lattimore
- The Civilization of China, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
- Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion: China (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1878), by Samuel Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, and Chinese Cultures, by Tang Yi-Jie (PDF at crvp.org)
- The Problem of China, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)
- New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening (second edition), by Arthur Judson Brown (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 Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)
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