| FACING PAGE |
| THE “HOLY MOTHER,” HER MAJESTY TZŬ HSI | [Frontispiece] |
| MAP OF PEKING | [xii, xiii] |
| THE REGENT PRINCE CH’UN, WITH HIS TWO SONS, THE PRESENT EMPEROR
(STANDING) AND PRINCE P’U CHIEH | [4] |
| THE IMPERIAL DAÏS IN THE CHIAO-TAL HALL | [18] |
| H.I.H. P’U JU, COUSIN OF THE PRESENT EMPEROR, SON OF THE BOXER
PRINCE TSAI-YING, AND GRANDSON OF PRINCE KUNG | [20] |
| HER MAJESTY TZŬ HSI IN THE YEAR 1903 | [36] |
| EXTERIOR OF THE CH’IEN CH’ING PALACE | [54] |
| H.M. TZŬ HSI, WITH THE CONSORT (LUNG YÜ) AND PRINCIPAL CONCUBINE
(JEN FEI) OF H.M. KUANG-HSÜ, ACCOMPANIED BY COURT LADIES AND EUNUCHS | [90] |
| FACSIMILE OF LETTER WRITTEN BY CHIEF EUNUCH LI LIEN-YING | [98] |
| INTERIOR OF THE YANG HSIN TIEN. (PALACE OF “MIND NURTURE.”) | [122] |
| INTERIOR OF THE I KUN KUNG | [148] |
| INTERIOR OF THE TAI HO TIEN | [166] |
| CIRCULAR THRONE HALL IN THE GROUNDS OF THE LAKE PALACE LOOTED BY
ALLIED TROOPS IN 1900 | [208] |
| PAVILION ON LAKE TO THE WEST OF FORBIDDEN CITY | [208] |
| THE “BEILEH” TSAI YING, SON OF PRINCE KUNG (CASHIERED BY TZŬ HSI
FOR PRO-BOXER PROCLIVITIES), AND HIS SON | [252] |
| H.M. THE EMPRESS DOWAGER AND LADIES OF HER COURT (1903) | [256] |
| THE TA-A-KO, SON OF PRINCE TUAN, THE BOXER LEADER | [280] |
| REPRODUCTION OF PICTURE PAINTED ON SILK BY HER MAJESTY TZŬ HSI | [284] |
| FACSIMILE OF A FRAGMENT OF THE DIARY | [299] |
| DAUGHTERS OF A HIGH MANCHU OFFICIAL OF THE COURT | [302] |
| MARBLE BRIDGE IN THE GROUNDS OF THE LAKE PALACE | [350] |
| IN THE GROUNDS OF THE PALACE IN THE WESTERN PARK | [350] |
| HIS HIGHNESS PRINCE TSAI HSÜN | [386] |
| VIEW, FROM THE K’UN MING LAKE, OF THE SUMMER PALACE | [452] |
| THE EMPRESS DOWAGER, WITH THE CHIEF EUNUCH, LI LIEN-YING | [454] |
| THE SON OF HEAVEN | [458] |
| MARBLE BRIDGE OVER THE LAKE IN THE WESTERN PARK WHICH SURROUNDS
THE LAKE PALACE | [474] |
| “TI WANG MIAO” OR TEMPLE TO THE MEMORY OF VIRTUOUS EMPERORS OF
PREVIOUS DYNASTIES | [474] |
| PORTRAIT OF THE EMPRESS DOWAGER | [482] |
| THE IMPERIAL DAÏS IN THE CH’IEN CH’ING HALL | [498] |
| CEILING AND PILLARS OF THE TAI HO TIEN | [510] |