CONTENTS

[I.]China’s Predicament[9]
[II.]The Golden Opium Days[20]
[III.]A Glimpse Into an Opium Province[53]
[IV.]China’s Sincerity[70]
[V.]Sowing the Wind in China—Shanghai[101]
[VI.]Sowing the Wind in China—Tientsin and Hongkong [129]
[VII.]How British Chickens Came Home to Roost[154]
[VIII.]The Position of Great Britain[178]
Appendix[204]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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H. E. Tong Shao-I[Title]
Kneading Crude Opium with Oil to Make Round or Flat Cakes[27]
Making Round Cakes of Opium[27]
The Opium Hulks of Shanghai[50]
An Opium Receiving Ship or “Godown” at Shanghai[50]
The Villages were Little More than Heaps of Ruins[54]
At Last He Crawls Out on the Highway, Whining, Chattering
and Praying that a Few Copper Cash be Thrown Him		[54]
Wreck and Ruin in China[68]
Enforcing the Edict at Shanghai[88]
In an Opium Den, Shanghai[114]
Opium-smoking[114]
Weighing Opium in a Government Factory in India[154]
Where the Chinaman Travels, Opium Travels too[172]