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The face of China

Chapter 4: ILLUSTRATIONS
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The narrative records travels through eastern, northern, central, and western China, presenting vivid descriptive sketches and illustrations of cities, villages, landscapes, and transport routes. It treats industry and daily life, including silk, tea, railways, canals, and river navigation, and describes sacred sites and practices associated with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. The author visits schools, missions, academies, and temples, noting local customs, architecture, and official institutions, and offers practical observations on travel, escorts, and inns. Throughout, the account balances personal impressions with reportage of social and infrastructural change encountered on the journey.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Coloured Plates
Portrait of Author as Chinese “Female Traveling Scholar” (p. 236) Frontispiece
Tea-House in Old Shanghai 6
A Suburb of Weihsien 16
A Village School 24
Official (Court Dress) 30
Mountain Chair 46
Tai Shan 48
Private House: Küfow 54
Confucian Temple 56
Mounted Military Escort 64
Our Houseboat, Grand Canal 69
Camel Inn 74
Opium Refuge 80
Theatre Stage 82
Pagoda 84
Tiger Brave 86
Scholar—Southern Servant 91
City Wall of Peking 92
Temple of Heaven 96
A Lady of Quality—An Official 100
Boxer—Kachin Woman (p. 253) 104
Mr. Ku 106
The Brakeman on the Péhan Railway 108
Ancestral Tablet 120
Blue Dawn 122
Yeh Tan Rapid 124
Village and Junk 132
The Look-out on the Yangtze 134
Camel-back Bridge 144
Szechwan Highway 150
Sunlight and Mist in the Mountains 158
Buddhist Monastery 166
Military Yamen 171
House on Min River 179
Otter Fishing on Min River 181
Mount Omi Bridge 187
Summit of Mount Omi 192
Copper Idol, Sui Fu 196
Cormorants on the Cormorant River 198
Laowatan River 201
Wha Miao 206
Bridegroom—Funeral Pagoda 213
Temple of the God of Literature 221
Fellow-Travellers 226
Tomb of a Philosopher among Rice-fields 229
Tali Fu 235
Shan Woman 249
Sepia Drawings
Cemetery of Confucius 61
Old Examination Buildings 88
Great Wall 110
Chinese Graves 116
River-side Shrine 141
The Chef on the Yangtze 141
City Gate: Chengtu 160
Police Boatman: Min River 181
Signboard of Inn 181
Buddhist Monk beating Fish Gong while Chanting 189
Tiger Shrine 189
Our Military Escort 203
“Orphan Spirit” Shrine 203
Tower of Refuge 204
“Omi to fu” Shrine 204
Miao Woman 206
Upland Village 208
Uh Chai 208
Yünnan Hat 211
Lolo Woman 211
Village Screen Wall 233
Carrying-Chair 233
Suspension-Bridge 243
Bridge made of Creepers 244