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Identifier: liondragoninnort00john (find matches)
Title: Lion and dragon in northern China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir, 1874-1938
Subjects: Weihaiwei
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ess a kind of unityentirely lacking to the villages as such. The Chiangfamily, to take a specific example, is the sole orprincipal family in the village of Chiang-chia-chai,but it is also the sole or predominant partner in atleast five villages within a radius of as many miles.One outward sign of its essential unity consists inthe old family burying-ground, in which all theChiangs in all these villages have equal rights ofsepulture. The peace of an ordinary Weihaiwei village is notoften seriously disturbed. The chief causes of troubleare bad-tempered women, who form an appreciableproportion of the population. Robbers and otherlaw-breakers are few in number; not necessarilybecause the Chinese are by nature more honest andrespectable than other people, but because the socialsystem to which they belong is singularly well adapted,in normal times at least, to prevent the outbreak ofcriminal propensities. No village possesses any bodyof men whose special duty it is to act as a police force,
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A DISTRICT HEADMAN AND HIS COMPLIMENTARY TABLET (see p. 289).

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