Isaac Taylor Headland: 7 books

Originally published in 1914, this text describes L.T. Headland and his wife’s experience in China in the early twentieth century. With a focus on home life this study explores issues such as children, marriage and education as well as food, religion and concubinage as well as presenting anecdotes...

Published in 1902, this intimate portrait of life in the Chinese royal court was based on the experiences of Headland's wife, who for twenty years served as the physician to the family of the Empress Dowager's mother, a circumstance that afforded the Headlands a degree of access unprecedented for Westerners at the time.

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PREFACE No thorough study of Chinese child life can be made until the wall of Chinese exclusiveness is broken down and the homes of the East are thrown open to the people of the West. Glimpses of that life however, are available, sufficient in number and character to give a fairly good idea...