| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| The Way in | Frontispiece |
| Shanghai from the River | 1 |
| Shanghai Creek, with Drawbridge | 3 |
| Tea-garden in Shanghai Chinese City | 7 |
| Porters waiting for Work | 11 |
| The Bubbling Well | 15 |
| Soochow Creek, Shanghai | 18 |
| Guild Garden at Kiangpei | 22 |
| Pavilion in Country Gentleman's Garden | 25 |
| Street Scene | 29 |
| Wheelbarrow | 30 |
| Bow of Travelling-boat | 32 |
| Entrance to Yangtse Gorges | 33 |
| Trackers | 36 |
| Poling a Boat up a Rapid | 43 |
| In the Niukan Gorge | 48 |
| White Emperor's Temple, looking down the Gorge of the Fearsome Pool, or Bellows Gorge | 49 |
| New and Glorious Rapid | 53 |
| Tree moved 100 Yards by Landslip that formed New Rapid | 54 |
| Iron Cover of Bottomless Well | 55 |
| At Fengtu | 56 |
| Free School | 67 |
| Poppies and Terraced Rice-fields | 71 |
| Chungking, Commercial Capital of Western China | 75 |
| Dinner Party in the Garden of a Member of the Hanlin College,—White Cloth spread in Compliment to Europeans | 78 |
| Morning Toilette | 80 |
| Outside Governor's Residence in Chungking | 83 |
| Country House near Kiukiang | 86 |
| A Chinese Country Club, or Guild Garden | 94 |
| A Hot Day | 95xii |
| Market Street outside City | 101 |
| The Oldest Official in the Province of Szechuan | 105 |
| Giving Evidence in a Court of Justice | 111 |
| Chinese Mode of Salutation | 123 |
| Chinese Roman Catholics of Many Generations | 135 |
| Woman's Natural Foot, and another Woman's Feet bound to 6 Inches | 138 |
| Woman's Natural Foot, and another Woman's Feet bound to 4½ Inches | 139 |
| Chinese Roman Catholic Burial-ground | 146 |
| Family of Literati, Leaders in the Anti-footbinding Movement in the West of China | 157 |
| Bridge near Soochow | 163 |
| Memorial Arch leading to Confucius' Grave | 165 |
| A Country House Party | 174 |
| Foot Shuttlecock | 175 |
| Wedding Procession | 185 |
| New Kweichow, built by Order | 193 |
| Memorial Arch | 201 |
| Shoes to mend | 206 |
| Ichang from the City Wall, Hall of Literature, and Pyramid Hill | 212 |
| Monastery | 217 |
| The 564 Images of Hangchow | 221 |
| Pavilion of the Moon in Grounds of God of War's Temple | 225 |
| Missionary Group at our House-warming | 231 |
| Soochow, with Mission Church | 243 |
| Temple to God of War, Yünyang | 246 |
| Colossal Gilded Buddha | 248 |
| Punch and Judy | 255 |
| Stone Animals at General's Grave. A Peasant seated on one with Straw Hat | 259 |
| Entrance to Fairies' Temple, Chungking | 261 |
| Play at a Dinner Party in a Guildhall | 262 |
| Audience at a Play in a Guildhall | 263 |
| Junk | 271 |
| Captain of Chinese Gunboat | 276 |
| Soldier | 278 |
| Soldier | 279 |
| Gunboat Soldiers | 284 |
| Soldiers | 287 |
| Temple of God of Literature | 294 |
| Map of China, showing Chief Examination Centres | 297 |
| Outside Confucius' Grave | 303 |
| Approach to Confucius' Grave | 307 |
| Fortress of Refuge, Country House, and Memorial Arch | 319 |
| Near Ningpo | 331 |
| Salisburia adiantifolia | 335xiii |
| Entrance to Monastery | 343 |
| Buddhist Images cut in Cliffs on the River Ya | 347 |
| At Fengtu, Chinese Hades | 351 |
| Begging Priest, once a General | 359 |
| Jack (Long-haired Shantung Terrier) | 365 |
| Sacred Tiger | 367 |
| Great Precipice of Mount Omi | 369 |
| Priest and Pilgrims on Edge of Omi Precipice | 373 |
| Cloud Effects on Mount Omi | 377 |
| Guard-house near the Arsenal | 384 |
| Roof and Roof-end at Chungking | 387 |
| Bridge at Hangchow | 389 |
| Bridge and Causeway on West Lake | 395 |
| Sacred Sai King Mountain | 397 |
| Brick-tea Carriers on the Great Brick-tea Road | 403 |
| Caravanserai at Tachienlu | 410 |
| In a Chungking Guild-house | 431 |
| Packing Tea | 435 |
| Chinese Hydraulic Apparatus | 439 |
| Peking Pug (Short-haired) | 447 |
| Peking Lion-dog (Long-haired) | 451 |
| On a Mountain Road | 454 |
| A Wheelbarrow Stand | 456 |
| Interior of Governor's Official Residence at Hangchow | 459 |
| Farmer and Water Buffaloes | 466 |
| Paper-burning Temples | 468 |
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