Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. The following misprints have been corrected: "familar" corrected to "familiar" (page 105) "meeeting" corrected to "meeting" (page 164) "literary" corrected to "literally" (page 212) "are are" corrected to "are" (page 278) "XXVI" corrected to "XXV" (page 317) "guage" corrected to "gauge" (page 323) "inadequte" corrected to "inadequate" (page 341) Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original. End of Project Gutenberg's Village Life in China, by Arthur H. Smith