| 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. |