Note 192 — Chapter VI · DIONYSUS THE MAN
Reading edition
According to the Rev. Justus Doolittle, Social Life of the Chinese, vol. ii., p. 30, the Chinese do not now make wine from the juice of the grape. See also Professor H. A. Giles, China and the Chinese (New York, 1902), p. 136: “Grape wine was used down to the fifteenth century, if not later.” Now the cultivation of the poppy for the manufacture of opium began in China in the seventeenth century. See Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, vol. vi., p. 177.