Published in 1894,Mrs Little's account of her stay at a farmhouse is an invaluable source for nineteenth-century Chinese life.

Excerpt from My Diary in a Chinese Farm They are busy weaving their Cotton, and we fell asleep to the sound of the Loom in the next room, and heard it already going on again, when we awoke next morning. July 7th. Wore my Chinese clothes for the first time, found them delightfully cool, and decided I would wear nothing else till the hot weather was over. A very trying day! Thunderstorms, and not a breath of air even on the top of our hill in the second and higher Range, 1800 ft. Above the River, 2000 ft. Above the sea. July 8th. They were busy spinning Yarn at the Farm to-day, and all the concrete, Threshing floor out side Our windows, that makes such a good place to sit out on in the moonlight, was taken up with their Yarn stretched on long frames. Found the cotton bandages, I wore last year with straw sandals, were not comfortable, so the Farmer's wife offered to bind my feet for me. She did so just like her own poor little stunted things, only using broader bandages, about yards long, as my 2 feet were so much bigger, and to my surprise her way of binding the feet was not only tidy but most comfortable, supporting the foot, just where it needs support. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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