CONTENTS

PART I

TRADE AND POLITICS

Western China: Its Products and Trade ............................................. 1

British Trade with China ................................................................. 39

Ex Oriente Lux .......................................................................... 51

Two Cities: London and Peking ................................................... 74

The Value of Tibet to England ....................................................... 92

The Partition of China ................................................................. 98

How to Register Your Trade Mark ............................................... 105

PART II

TRAVEL

The Romance of Chinese Travel .................................................... 110

A New Road .............................................................................. 117

A Chinese Sulphur Bath .............................................................. 128

The New Rapid and the Arrival of the First Steamer in Chungking .... 134

The Dangers of the Upper Yangtse ............................................. 140

Szechuan Revisited .................................................................. 150

Yachting in the Chusan Archipelago .......................................... 171