Mirror Of Kong Ho
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94
1905
English
- Introduction -- Estimable Barbarian
- Letter 1 – Concerning the journey. The unlawful demons… etc
- Letter 2 – Concerning the ill-destined manner of existence of the hound Hercules. etc
- Letter 3 – Concerning the virtuous amusements of both old and young. etc
- Letter 4 – Concerning a desire to expatiate upon subjects of philosophical importance… etc
- Letter 5 – Concerning the neglect of ancestors and its discreditable consequences. etc
- Letter 6 – Concerning this persons well-sustained efforts to discover further demons. etc
- Letter 7 – Concerning warfare, both as waged by ourselves and by a nation devoid of true civilization. etc
- Letter 8 – Concerning the wisdom of the divine Wei Chung… etc
- Letter 9 – Concerning the proverb of the highly-accomplished horse. etc
- Letter 10 – Concerning the authority of this high official, Sir Philip. etc
- Letter 11 – Concerning the game which we should call ‘Locusts’… etc
- Letter 12 – Concerning the obvious misunderstanding which has entwined itself about a revered parent’s faculties of passionless discrimination. etc
- Letter 13 – Concerning a state of necessity… etc
- Letter 14 – Concerning a pressing invitation from an ever benevolently-disposed father… etc
This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience of Western civilization in late nineteenth century London. The author is delightfully humorous. - Summary by david wales
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