DOGS OF CHINA AND JAPAN 



It seems probable that it was from the Ch'ien Lung period 

 that the Chinese began to call these dogs " Peiching Kou " or 

 ' Pekingese " a name which is now in common use through- 

 out China. 



No ' Pekingese " appear to have been mentioned or 

 recorded by Lord Macartney's Embassy to Peking in 1792, 

 and the first authentic importation into England took place 

 in 1860. None were shown until some years later. 



The official records of the later periods of the Ching or 

 Manchu Dynasty have not yet been compiled and published, 

 but it is probable that they will have nothing to say of the 

 pigeons of the Emperor T'ao Kuang and of the dogs of his 

 consort, matters well-known to modern hearsay, but not 

 considered by modern Chinese historians to be of fitting 

 importance for historical record. 



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