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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Dedication
  4. Introductory
  5. With the Empress Dowager of China
    1. I: My Presentation and First Day at the Chinese Court
    2. II: Personal Appearance of Her Majesty—A Chinese Repast—Boating
    3. III: The Palace of the Emperor’s Father (Prince Ch’un, the Seventh Prince)
    4. IV: Her Majesty’s Throne-Room—Some Personal Characteristics
    5. V: The Young Empress and Ladies of the Court
    6. VI: Continuation of the Portrait—Her Majesty’s Dogs
    7. VII: Festivities at Court
    8. VIII: His Majesty the Emperor Kwang-Hsu
    9. IX: The Emperor’s Birthday
    10. X: Peking—The Sea Palace
    11. XI: Some Characteristics of Her Majesty—Second Visit to the Sea Palace
    12. XII: Return to the Summer Palace
    13. XIII: The Steam-Launch—Semiannual Sacrifices to Confucius
    14. XIV: The Palace Eunuchs
    15. XV: The Literary Tastes and Accomplishments of the Empress Dowager
    16. XVI: The Great Audience Hall—Some Official Customs
    17. XVII: The Summer Palace and Its Grounds
    18. XVIII: The Festival of the Harvest Moon—Work on the Portrait
    19. XIX: A Garden Party at the Summer Palace
    20. XX: I Begin a Second Portrait of Her Majesty—The Palace Painters
    21. XXI: A European Circus at the Palace
    22. XXII: Palace Customs
    23. XXIII: Her Majesty’s Anxiety—Her Birthday
    24. XXIV: The Winter Palace
    25. XXV: Peking—Beginning the Portrait for St. Louis
    26. XXVI: Some Social Customs—Manchu and Chinese
    27. XXVII: Present-Giving in China
    28. XXVIII: Some Winter Days at the Palace
    29. XXIX: Religious Rites in China
    30. XXX: Her Majesty the Empress Dowager
    31. XXXI: The Empress Dowager’s Charities, Sense of Justice, Extravagance, and Personal Characteristics
    32. XXXII: The Chinese New Year—Official Audience
    33. XXXIII: Continuation of the St. Louis Portrait—Spring Days at the Sea Palace
    34. XXXIV: Finishing and Sending Off the Portrait
    35. XXXV: Return to the Summer Palace
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Endnotes
  8. Colophon
  9. Uncopyright

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  1. With the Empress Dowager of China
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Endnotes