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CRESPO (Joaquim Heliodoro Callado). COUSAS da China Costumes e Crenças. Lisboa. 1898. - CRESPO (Joaquim Heliodoro Callado) COUSAS da China Costumes e Crenças . Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1898. 283 pp.; 245 mm. A study on the customs and beliefs of late 19th-century imperial China, authored by Joaquim Heliodoro Callado Crespo, Portuguese consul in Canton, published by the National Press in the collection of contributions from the Lisbon Geographical Society for the Fourth Centenary of the Discovery of India. The work explores festivities (New Year's Eve and other celebrations), the Chinese language, characters, and printing press, and various other aspects of the country's social and religious life, concluding with a study by Guilherme de Vasconcelos Abreu, founder of Sanskrit studies in Portugal, on animism among the Chinese, analyzed in light of classical Chinese literature (Chau-li, Xi-Kim) and its persistence among peoples of Mongoloid descent. Rare and intriguing. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate