Insights into Chinese Superstition

Description

Dr. J. J. Matignon's work on superstition, crime, and misery in China features 66 engravings and 6 color plates, published in Lyon and Paris by Storck and Masson in 1899. This octavo volume is bound in half-morocco with preserved cover, brick-red top edge, and ribbed spine, displaying gilded title (period binding). Contains XXIX, [3], 379 pages, [1] table page, 6 out-of-text color plates; spine rubbed, interior fresh. Matignon served as a doctor for three and a half years at the French hospital in Nam Tang, Beijing. Topics include various superstitions, suicide, auto-cremation of Buddhist priests, infanticide, Peking beggars, imperial eunuchs, Mongolian medicine, surgical instruments, and local religious ideas.