XI.[ The New China: Awake and at Work] 102

The Coming National Parliament

The Successful War Against Opium

China's Right-about-face in Education

Building Up an Army

Attacking the Graft System

Railroads, Posts, and Telegraphs

America's Relations with China.
XII.[A Trip into Rural China] 116

The Camels from Mongolia

Strange Traffic and Travel in Nankou Pass

The Great Wall of China

Surprisingly Progressive Farming Methods.
XIII.[From Peking to the Yangtze-Kiang] 123

Street Life in Peking

History That Is History

Martyrdoms That Have Enriched the World

Average Wages 15 to 18 Cents a Day

Homes Without Firesides

All China a Vast Cemetery

Keeping on Good Terms with Dragons

The Blessings of Our Alphabet

Confucius as a Moral Teacher

My Friendship with a Descendant of Confucius.
XIV.[ Sidelights on Chinese Character and Industry] 132

Healthy Public Sentiment

Slavery and Foot-binding Still Practised

"Big Feet No B'long Pretty"

The Popularity of a No. 2 Wife

The Virtue That Is Next to Godliness Largely Disregarded

Some Discredited Americans Discovered Abroad

A 600-Mile Trip on the Yangtze {xiv} River

An Interview with Wu Ting Fang

Farming on the Yangtze

Shanghai Factory Laborers Paid 12 Cents a Day.
XV.[ Farewell to China] 142

A City of 2,000,000 People Without a Vehicle

A Dead Chinaman More Important and Respected Than a Live One

Queer Features of Chinese Funerals

Cruelty of Chinese Punishments

A Sample of Chinese Humor: The Story of the Magic Jar

Amusing Trials of a Land Buyer

"Pidgin English"

Everything Is Saved

The Influence That Is Remaking China.
XVI.[What I Saw in the Philippines] 153

In Manila

A Trip Through Five Provinces

What the Philippine Country Looks Like

Every Filipino Has Cigarette and a Clean Suit

A Mania for Cock-fighting

Snapshots of Philippine Life

Labor the One Thing Lacking.
XVII.[What the United States Is Doing in the Philippines] 163

Thirty Thousand White People and 7,000,000 Filipinos

Rich Resources and Varied Products

Millions in Lumber

How the Islands Are Governed

Restricting the Suffrage

Education: Achievements of the American Government

Postal Savings Banks and the Torrens System

Public Health Work

Building Roads

And Then Keeping Them Up

"A George Junior Republic."
XVIII. [Asia's Greatest Lesson foe America .] 173

Where 10 Cents a Day Is a Laborer's Wage

The Savage Struggle for Existence in the East

Tasks Heart-sickening in Their Heaviness

Where Women Are Burden-bearers

$12 a Year for a Farm Hand

An Overcrowded Population Not the Chief Cause of Asia's Poverty

A Defective Organization of Industry Responsible

Foolish Opposition to Labor-saving Tools

Our Debt to Machinery

Knowledge Itself a Productive Agency

Ineffectiveness of Oriental Labor

Tools and Knowledge the Secret of Wealth

Importance of Our Racial Heritage

The Final Lesson.

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XIX.[The Straits Settlements and Burma] 186

The Amazing Industry of the Chinese

Easy Money in Cocoanuts

How Germany Is Capturing Oriental Trade

Rangoon the City of Gorgeous Colors

Burma's Buddhist Temples

Rangoon's Beasts of Burden

Where the Elephants Do the Work

Some First-hand Jungle Stories

My Lord the Elephant

Good-by to Burma.