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| The First of the Mikados | [5] |
| How Civilization came to Japan | [12] |
| Yamato-Daké, a Hero of Romance | [19] |
| Jingu, the Amazon of Japan | [27] |
| The Decline of the Mikados | [35] |
| How the Taira and the Minamoto fought for Power | [41] |
| The Bayard of Japan | [51] |
| The Hojo Tyranny | [59] |
| The Tartar Invasion of Japan | [67] |
| Nobunaga and the Fall of the Buddhists | [73] |
| How a Peasant Boy became Premier | [80] |
| The Founder of Yedo and of Modern Feudalism | [86] |
| The Progress of Christianity in Japan | [97] |
| The Decline and Fall of Christianity in Japan | [106] |
| The Captivity of Captain Golownin | [113] |
| The Opening of Japan | [123] |
| The Mikado comes to his own again | [133] |
| How the Empire of China arose and grew | [142] |
| Confucius, the Chinese Sage | [150] |
| The Founder of the Chinese Empire | [156] |
| Kaotsou and the Dynasty of the Hans | [172] |
| The Empress Poisoner of China | [180] |
| The Invasion of the Tartar Steppes | [186] |
| The "Crimson Eyebrows" | [192] |
| The Conquest of Central Asia | [197] |
| The Siege of Sinching | [202] |
| From the Shoemaker's Bench to the Throne | [205] |
| Three Notable Women | [212] |
| The Reign of Taitsong the Great | [217] |
| A Female Richelieu | [223] |
| The Tartars and Genghis Khan | [228] |
| How the Friars fared among the Tartars | [236] |
| The Siege of Sianyang | [242] |
| The Death-Struggle of China | [249] |
| The Palace of Kublai Khan | [255] |
| The Expulsion of the Mongols | [264] |
| The Rise of the Manchus | [272] |
| The Manchu Conquest of China | [281] |
| The Career of a Desert Chief | [290] |
| The Raid of the Goorkhas | [299] |
| How Europe entered China | [306] |
| The Burning of the Summer Palace | [315] |
| A Great Christian Movement and its Fate | [323] |
| Corea and its Neighbors | [330] |
| The Battle of the Iron-clads | [339] |
| Progress in Japan and China | [347] |