The Chinese Boy and Girl

Project Gutenberg's The Chinese Boy and Girl, by Isaac Taylor Headland This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Chinese Boy and Girl Author: Isaac Taylor Headland Posting Date: September 13, 2008 [EBook #522] Release Date: May, 1996 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHINESE BOY AND GIRL *** Produced by Charles Keller. HTML version by Al Haines. THE CHINESE BOY AND GIRL BY ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND OF PEKING UNIVERSITY Author of Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes PREFACE No thorough study of Chinese child life can be made until the wall of Chinese exclusiveness is broken down and the homes of the East are thrown open to the people of the West. Glimpses of that life however, are available, sufficient in number and character to give a fairly good idea of what it must be. The playground is by no means always hidden, least of all when it is the street. The Chinese nurse brings her Chinese rhymes, stories and games into the foreigner's home for the amusement of its little ones. Chinese kindergarten methods and appliances have no superior in their ingenuity and their ability to interest, as well as instruct.