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China Superstition Crime And Misery In China 1899

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Matignon (Dr JJ) 
Superstition crime and poverty in China (Memories and social biology). Sixty-six engravings in the text and six plates inset in color.

Lyon, Paris, Storck, Masson, 1899; in-8, half-chagrin binding, preserved cover, brick head, ribbed spine, gilt title (contemporary binding); XXIX, [3], 379 pp., [1] f. table, 6 colored inset plates, rubbed spine, fresh interior. 
Doctor Matignon was a doctor for three and a half years at the French Nam Tang Hospital in Beijing. 
Table of Contents: On some superstitions – Suicide – The self-cremation of Buddhist priests – Infanticide and abortion – A few words on pederasty – The beggar of Beijing – The eunuchs of the Imperial Palace of Beijing – Notes on the medicine of the Mongols – Surgical instruments – On the average age of marriage among the Pekingese – Intrauterine diagnosis of the sex of the fetus – About a Chinese woman’s foot – The musical instruments of the Chinese – The dead who govern – The street of Beijing – The religious ideas of the Chinese – Hysteria and Boxers – Epilogue.

Lyon, Paris, Storck, Masson, 1899; in-8, half-chagrin binding, preserved cover, brick head, ribbed spine, gilt title (contemporary binding); XXIX, [3], 379 pp., [1] f. table, 6 colored inset plates, rubbed spine, fresh interior.  Table of Contents: On some superstitions – Suicide – The self-cremation of Buddhist priests – Infanticide and abortion – A few words on pederasty – The beggar of Beijing – The eunuchs of the Imperial Palace of Beijing – Notes on the medicine of the Mongols – Surgical instruments – On the average age of marriage among the Pekingese – Intrauterine diagnosis of the sex of the fetus – About a Chinese woman’s foot – The musical instruments of the Chinese – The dead who govern – The street of Beijing – The religious ideas of the Chinese – Hysteria and Boxers – Epilogue.