| Portrait of the Empress Dowager | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE |
| The Empress and the Ladies of the Court in the Imperial Barge | [24] |
| Princesses of the Court | [40] |
| The Young Empress Ye-Ho-Na-Lah | [44] |
| At the American Legation, Peking | [88] |
| Chinese Architecture | [104] |
| On the Road from Peking to the Summer Palace | [112] |
| The Empress Dowager Writing a “Great Character” | [136] |
| The Empress Dowager in the Gardens of the Summer Palace | [140] |
| The Official Audience of Their Majesties | [146] |
| Old Ruins in the Summer Palace | [152] |
| The Secondary Wife of the Emperor | [168] |
| Pai-lou in the Grounds of the Summer Palace—on the Shore of the Lake | [176] |
| Princesses of the Court | [188] |
| Court in the Winter Palace—“Her Majesty Comes” | [204] |
| Confucian Temple—“Spirit-Stairway” in Central Flight of Steps | [208] |
| Prince Ching | [216] |
| The Author in Chinese Costume | [234] |
| Temple of Heaven—Peking | [246] |
| Altar to the Invisible Deity | [250] |
| Slave Girls | [280] |
| The Portrait of the Empress Dowager in its Frame | [304] |