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INDEX

American commerce abroad, 87-8, 91-2
American goods sold lower abroad, 101
Ancestor worship, Japan, 7-8
Area and population,
Manchuria, 78;
Philippines, 163;
India, 211
Artistic Japanese,40, 48-9




Beans in Manchuria, 75-6
Beasts, India's wild, 258-60
Benares, 202
Boxer troubles, 125-26




Camels in China, 116-17
Canton, 142
Caste system, 226-35;
effect on labor, 229;
robber caste, 231;
defended, 232
Child marriage in India, 237-8
Children, Hindu, 223-4
China, premonitions of revolution,93, 102-6.
China Sea, 153
Chinese hardiness, 187-8
Chinese immigration, 114-15
Christian vs. Hindu philosophy, 199, 204-5
Christian vs. Oriental philosophy, 271
Cocoanut planting, 189
Confucianism, 103
Conservation of forests, 262-4
Cooperative credit societies,
Japan, 25;
India, 222
Crops--
Rice, 23-5;
cotton, 23, 76, 140, 168, 254-7;
India's crops, 219
Currency reform in China, 97-98


Diseases and sanitation, 56-64, 72, 135, 170-71
Dress,
Japanese, 10-11;
Indian, 216


Education, 272;
Japanese, 17;
Chinese, 99, 109-11;
Filipino, 168-9;
Indian, 210
Elephants, Stories about, 193-5
Extravagance, American, 264-6


Factory child labor, 268;
Japan, 33
Family government, 7, 149
Famines in India, 218-20


Farm animals,
Japan, 22;
Manchuria, 74;
Philippines, 159
Farming--
Japan, 21-28;
Manchurian, 76;
Chinese, 122, 126-8, 140-41, 177;
Philippine, 155-6, 165;
Indian, 218-23, 255-7;
tools, 23, 190, 218;
houses, 26, 127, 156, 212
Fatalism, 227-8
Filipino character, 172
Filipino houses, 156
Foot binding. Chinese, 133-84
Funeral and burial customs,77, 124, 128, 144-5, 203-4. 243


Ganges, 203
German commercial activity, 190
Government,
Japanese, 4;
Korea's corrupt, 65-7;
Chinese,108
Great Wall, 120-21


Himalayas, The, 208-9
Hindu gods and goddesses, 200
Hindu village described, 212
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India, English rule in, 248-52
India's diversity of races, 248
Individual, repression of, 55-6
Industrial efficiency,37, 40, 141


Japan control in
Korea, 67-8;
Manchuria, 78-92
Japanese city described, 9-11
Japanese-Russian War, 70-72; 90-91


Korea,60-69


Language--
Japanese spoken, 3;
written, 9-10;
Chinese, 129-30
Lawrence, Sir Henry, 246
Love of nature, Japanese, 27


Machinery, Asia's refusal to use, 183
Manchuria's fertility, 73-4
Manila, 154
Manufacturing, Japan, 31, 34-47
Marriage customs,
Japanese, 5-7, 139;
Korean, 63;
Chinese, 134:
Indian, 236-43
Missionary work, 59, 69;
Japan, 61;
Korea, 68;
Philippines, 164
Moral standards, 134, 136
Music, 5




Odd customs,
Japan, 3-6, 12;
Korean, 65
Okuma, Count, interviewed, 44-5; 266
Open door in Manchuria, The, 78-92
Opium, China's crusade against, 94-6; 108


Parcels post, 101
Peking, Glimpses of, 123-25
Perry's Expedition, 58
Persecution of Christians,51-2, 125-6
Philippine government, 167-70
Philippine resources, 165-7
Philippine scenery, 155-6
"Pidgin English," 150-51
Politeness, Japanese,12, 13
Postal savings banks, 169
Poverty of Oriental people,175, 210, 252
Practical education, 99, 273
Punishments, Chinese, 145-6


Racial fertility, 7, 11, 270-71
Railways,
Manchurian, 83-6;
Chinese, 139-40
Rangoon, 190-91
Religions,
Shintoism, 49;
Buddhism, 49-50, 151, 122-3;
Confucianism, 130-31;
Hinduism, 198-208, 227
Roads, 74;
in Philippines, 171
Rubber speculation, 188


School term, Japan, 17-18
Size of farms,
Japan, 21;
China, 126
Slavery in China, 132
Social gradations, Japanese, 16
"Squeeze" system in China, 96, 112
Story, A Chinese, 146-7
Superstitions, 77, 128-9


Taj Mahal described, 244-5
Tariff--
Japanese, 30, 44-6;
Chinese, 112
Taxes in Japan, 30
Torrens land titles,98, 169-70
Tropical vegetation, 186


Wages--
Japan, 29, 34, 36, 42, 174;
China, 126, 141, 174, 177;
Burma, 196;
India, 210, 223, 253-4
War spirit,267;
Japan, 35, 72, 266;
China, 111-12
Wedding, A Hindu, 239
Welfare work in Japanese factories 31-3
Woman's degraded position, 271;
Japan,6, 52-6;
India, 236-44
Women laborers, 39, 43, 177, 253-4
Wu Ting Fang interviewed, 139


Yang-bans, The,66
Yangtze River,138-9