Chinese Sketches: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Chinese Sketches by Herbert Allen Giles: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 43 original MP3 tracks, 4:56:50 running time and a link to listen.
Chinese Sketches, credited to Herbert Allen Giles, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Chinese Sketches by Herbert Allen Giles. Read in English by MaryAnn Spiegel. Herbert Giles was in the diplomatic service in China from 1867 to 1893. His frank observations on Chinese culture and people form the basis of these short essays, published in 1876. On his retirement, he returned to England and served as the Chair of Chinese at Cambridge for 35 years.
Recording facts
- Recording title: Chinese Sketches
- Author credits: Herbert Allen Giles
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 43
- Listed recording duration: 4:56:50
Catalogue topics
- children
- culture
- women
- Christianity
- suicide
- medicine
- etiquette
- new year
Opening tracks: first 24 of 43
- 00 - Preface — 1:43
- 01 - Death of an Emperor — 13:46
- 02 - The Position of Women — 6:21
- 03 - Etiquette — 6:02
- 04 - Etiquette No. II — 4:57
- 05 - Literature — 6:09
- 06 - Educational Literature — 4:53
- 07 - Dentistry — 7:14
- 08 - Medical Science — 6:37
- 09 - Medical Science No. II — 6:11
- 10 - Loan Societies — 5:06
- 11 - Guilds — 6:47
- 12 - Pawnbrokers — 7:05
- 13 - Postal Service — 6:18
- 14 - Slang — 7:54
- 15 - Fortune-Telling — 5:53
- 16 - Games and Gambling — 7:22
- 17 - Jurisprudence — 5:07
- 18 - Jurisprudence No. II — 8:39
- 19 - Buddhist Priests — 5:15
- 20 - Respect for the Written Character — 5:35
- 21 - Superstition — 5:36
- 22 - Natural Phenomena — 5:16
- 23 - Celebration of the New Year — 7:44
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