Contents: A treaty between the states of Lu, Sung, Wei, Cheng, Hsu and Chao -- The superior man / Confucius -- Confucius, the master / Disciples -- Some words of advice for rulers / Mencius -- The expedition of Li Ling and its aftermath / Ssu-ma Ch'ien -- The perfection of art in china / Abu Zeid al Hansan -- Letter to Chu Kang-Shu, chief magistrate of ochow / Su Tung-po -- The great khan / Marco Polo -- The feasts that the khan keepeth -- The land of china / Ibn Battuta -- Of the apparel and customs of the women / Father Gaspar de Cruz -- Some highlights of a trip from Canton to Peking / M. John Nieuhoff -- The emperor Kang-Hi travels to eastern Tartary / Father Ferdinand Verbiest -- Hunting with the emperor Kun-Hi / Father Pereira -- From Nimpo to Pekin / Louis Le Comte -- The great wall / Louis Le Comte -- The annual festival / E. Yshants Ides -- The Chinese people / Dionysius Kao - Some Chinese customs / Father Matteo Ripa -- Gardens for diversion / Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg -- Joss / Major Samuel Shaw -- The Chinese junks / Aeneas Anderson -- Breakfast with the emperor of China / André Everard Van-Braam Houckgeest -- A letter to Queen Victoria / Commissioner Lin -- The capture of the island of Chusan / Lord Jocelyn -- A captive in China / Captain Denham -- A tea dealer's home / W. H. Medhurst -- An old Chinese recipe for making tea / Tüng-po -- The manufacture of tea / Robert Fortune -- Punishment in China / John Scarth -- Fishing with cormorants / Abbé Armand David -- Opium smoking / W. H. Medhurst -- A question of etiquette / Wu K'o-tu -- The great famine in northern China / British Medical Officer -- The condition of the Chinese people / Dr. Sun Yat-sen -- The boxer attack on Tientsin / Rev. Frederick Brown -- The aftemath of the boxer rebellion / Wilbur J. Chamberlain -- Underlying causes of the boxer rebellion / H.C. Thomson -- Her emperial majesty, the empress dowager of China, gets dressed / Princess Der Ling -- The advance of modernism / Sheng Cheng -- An imperial decree - Small Japan and big China / Ten-year-old Chinese boy -- Mao Tse-Tung and I were beggars / Siao-yu -- Examinations in old China / John and Alice. C. Dewey -- The beast of burden / Somerset Maugham -- A girl rebel in the people's army / Hsieh Ping-ying -- Real China / Lin Yu-t'ang -- The young vanguards / Dr. Chi P'eng-fei -- A Chinese village / Nikos Kazantzakis -- Early incidents that influenced my life / Mao Tse-tung.