Volume 1: Biographical sketch of the Hon. Charles Denby, LL. D. -- I. Appointed minister to China -- II. Arrival at Peking -- III. Foreign life at Peking -- IV. Peking -- V. The Imperial City -- VI. The civil service examinations -- VII. The work of the diplomats -- VIII. Banks and banking -- IX. The Imperial Customs Service -- X. Agriculture -- XI. Arts and language -- XII. Woman in China -- XIII. Religion and superstition -- XIV. Slavery -- XV. Disposal of the dead -- XVI. The civil law -- XVII. Christian mission work in China -- XVIII. The Empress Dowager.

Volume 2: I. The administration of the government -- II. The trade of China -- III. Progress of foreign trade in China -- IV. America's trade with China -- V. The Province of Sze-Chuen -- VI. Manchuria -- VII. Chinese riots -- VIII. The treatment of China by the foreign powers -- IX. The exclusion of the Chinese labourer -- X. The Japanese-Chinese War -- XI. Seizures of Chinese territory -- XII. The first Philippine Commission -- XIII. The Boxer uprising -- XIV. The capture and government of Tientsin -- XV. The United States Consular Service -- XVI. Progress on the Pacific shores -- XVII. The future of the great powers in the Far East --XVIII. The Russo-Japanese War.

Contextualizing Chaoben: on the popular manuscript culture of the late Qing and Republican period in China -- Apologia in Chaoben -- Written in the margins: reading into texts -- Teacher Xu: entering a classroom in late Qing China -- A Qing dynasty astrologer's predictions for the future -- Constructing the family in Republican China: Shandong in text: comma here 1944 -- Mr. Bai and Mr. Qian earn their living: considering two handwritten in text: without hyphen notebooks of matching couplets from China in the late Qing and early Republic -- The troublesome ghosts: part 1 -- The troublesome ghosts: part 2.

Local access dig.pdf. [Suleski-Chaoben.pdf]

Shijiu shiji Zhongguo shijing fengqing : sanbailiushi hang 十九世紀中國市井風情 : 三百六十行 = Customs and conditions of Chinese city streets in 19th century : 360 professions in China / Huang Shijian, Shajin bianzhu 黃時鑒, 沙進編著.
"Meiguo Pibodi Aisaikesi bowuguan zanghua 美國皮博迪艾塞克斯博物館藏畫=Peabody Essex Museum.
附參考文獻. 中英對照.

Contents: 100 gouaches by Puqua, 360 ink drawings by Tinqua (Tingqua) = Pugua shuifenhua yibaifu -- Tinggua xianmiaohua sanbailiushi fu 蒲呱水粉畫一百幅 -- 庭呱線描畫三百六十幅.

Contents note: Collection of watercolor and gouache paintings by Lam Qua, Tingqua, & Houqua produced as export art during the period from ca. 1830-1870. Most depict stylized views of everyday urban Chinese social activity and a variety of jobs: merchants, street vendors, butchers, craftsmen, money changers, candle makers, bow and arrowsmith, shoemakers, laborers, painters, metalsmiths, tailors, carpenters, selling "smuggled salt" (!) and many more.

Contents: Part I. The village, its institutions, usages, and public characters -- The Chinese village -- Construction of villages -- Village nomenclature -- Country roads -- The village ferry -- Village wells -- The village shop -- The village theatre -- Village schools and traveling scholars -- Chinese higher education -- The village high school, examinations, recent educational edicts -- Village temples and religious societies -- Cooperation in religious observances -- Cooperation in religious observances -- Cooperation in markets and fairs -- Cooperative loan societies -- Societies for watching the crops -- Village and city rain-making -- The village hunt -- Village weddings and funerals -- New Year in Chinese villages -- The village bully -- Village headmen.
Part II. Village family life -- Village boys and men -- Chinese country girls and women -- Monotony and vacuity of village life -- Unstable equilibrium of the Chinese family -- Instability from family disunity.
Part III. Regeneration of the Chinese village -- What can Christianity do for China?