Research Catalog

Title

Chips of jade : being Chinese proverbs with more folk-sayings from Hindustan and other oriental countries / rhymed in English by Arthur Guiterman.

Author

Guiterman, Arthur, 1871-1943.

Publication

New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1927.

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Details

Additional Authors

Guiterman, Arthur, 1871-1943.

Description

vii, 86 p.; 19 cm.

Uniform Title

• Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Emigration and immigration.
• Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Emigration and immigration. Preservation microfilm collection ; 00380.

Subjects

• Chinese; East Indians; Arabs; Traditions; Poetry
• Folklore > South Asia
• Folklore > China
• Proverbs, Hindustani
• Proverbs, Chinese

Note

• Many verses previously published in Life, Collier's weekly, The New York times, or the World outlook.
• "Part of the material in the section 'Betel nuts' appeared in the author's earlier book of that title, originally published in 1907"--P. [v].
• "These proverbs that I bring thee are from ... the people of the Eighteen Provinces of the Flowery Kingdom, and are spoken in the streets of Canton and Peking"--P. 1.
• "Herein shalt thou find ... colorful proverbs of Bengal, the Punjab, Rajputana, and even of the mountains of Kashmir and Afghanistan, with some few others"--P. [29].

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chips of jade, or, What they say in China -- Betel nuts, or, What they say in Hindustan.

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library