| Chinese Villagers at Home | [Frontispiece.] | ||||
| Southern Village Scene A Detail—The Village Well | } | Facing | page | [16] | |
| Sawyers Preparing Lumber Itinerant Blacksmith’s Employed by Villagers | } | " | " | [24] | |
| The Village Cobbler Village Broom-Maker | } | " | " | [35] | |
| Waiting for the Boat Crossing the Ferry | } | " | " | [40] | |
| Strings of Chinese Cash Preparing the Strings | } | " | " | [51] | |
| Threshing An Afternoon Siesta | } | " | " | [77] | |
| The World’s Oldest Sacred Mountain, T‘ai Shan Scenery Along the River Lin | } | " | " | [141] | |
| Going to Market Chinese Market Scene | } | " | " | [148] | |
| Crop-Watcher’s Lodge Reaping Millet | } | " | " | [162] | |
| A Bridal Pair Temporary Funeral Pavilion | } | " | " | [188] | |
| Entrance to a Yamen Chinese Court of Justice | } | " | " | [218] | |
| Chinese Punch and Judy The Village Story-Teller | } | " | " | [244] | |
| Women Preparing Food On the Way to the Feast | } | " | " | [262] | |
| One of China’s Parasites—A Beggar One of Her Sources of Strength—A Carpenter | } | " | " | [310] | |
| Little Old People Going to a Christian School | } | " | " | [342] | |
Glossary
Boy, a term used by foreigners in China to denote the head-servant, irrespective of his age.
Cash, Chinese copper coin with a square hole for stringing. The value of a single cash may be taken as one-thousandth of a Mexican dollar. The cash vary greatly in size. A “string” theoretically consists of a thousand cash, but in many regions has but five hundred. The latter variety is at present equal to one-third of a gold dollar.
Catty, a Chinese pound, equal by treaty to one and one-third pounds avoirdupois.
Chin-shih, “Entered Scholar.” The third literary degree; Doctor in Literature.
Chou, a Sub-prefecture, sometimes with Districts under it, and often without them.
Chü-Jên, “Selected man.” The second full literary degree; a Master of Arts.