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Title: China's open door; a sketch of Chinese life and history
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Wildman, Rounsevelle, 1864-1901
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Publisher: Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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se was remanded, and themagistrate took French leave of the court. TheChinese are becoming sensitive of the criticism ofthe foreign devils. We possibly saved the cul-prits for the time from a bambooing, or possiblybeing strung up by the thumbs, but we certainlydid consign them for another week to the livingdeath of a Chinese prison. We met a man in one of the narrow streetswearing a stock, or cangue, on each side of whichwere pasted printed notices informing all theworld that he was a thief, and had been caught inthe act. One hand was tied behind him ; and inthe other he held a bell, which he rang continu-ously to attract attention to himself. A policemanfollowed, who from time to time beat him with abamboo. If some of our high-toned bank wreck-ers were driven up and down Wall Street in thisfashion, at least one style of crime would becomeunpopular. It was some time before I ventured into thestudio of a portrait painter. I had learned tocredit the Chinese with great imitative skill in
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THE CANGUE : A FORM OF CHINESE PUNISHMENT. It is the absence of nerves that enables the Chinese to endnre patn as well as toil. IMITATIVE SKILL, 267 many ways. They could take a suit of my besthome-made clothes, and copy it exactly for one-tenth of what I had paid for the original, and atthe same time use the best English and Scotchmaterial, but I did not expect much from them ina purely artistic line. I was not impressed withtheir attempts to paint from living sitters. Theresult was too much like the old Masters; buttheir copying in oil, engravings and photographs,on ivory were well done. The portrait of GeorgeWashington which they did for me from an old yel-low frontispiece in the Constitution of the UnitedStates would have done Trumbull or Stuartcredit. It was four feet by three, and the chargewas three dollars gold. There was no excuse forbeing over critical at that price ; and then I skiedit, so that it showed up at least three hundreddollars worth. The Chinese artist belongs str

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