With the empress dowager of China / by Katherine Augusta Carl ; introduction by Kaori O'Connor.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; PACIFIC BASIN BOOKS; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; INTRODUCTION; NOTES; CHAPTER I. MY PRESENTATION AND FIRST DAY AT THE CHINESE COURT; CHAPTER II. PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF HER MAJESTY-A CHINESE REPAST-BOATING; CHAPTER III. THE PALACE OF THE EMPEROR'S FATHER; CHAPTER IV. HER MAJESTY'S THRONE-ROOM; CHAPTER V. THE YOUNG EMPRESS AND LADIES OF THE COURT; CHAPTER VI. CONTINUATION OF THE PORTRAIT; CHAPTER VII. FESTIVITIES AT COURT; CHAPTER VIII. HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR; CHAPTER IX. THE EMPEROR'S BIRTHDAY; CHAPTER X. PEKING-THE SEA PALACE.
- Chapter xi. some characteristics of her majesty
- second visit to the sea palacechapter xii. return to the summer palace; chapter xiii. the steam-launch-semi-annual sacrifices to confucius; chapter xiv. the palace eunuchs; chapter xv. literary tastes and accomplishments of the empress dowager; chapter xvi. the great audience hall; chapter xvii. the summer palace; chapter xviii. festival of the harvest moon; chapter xix. a garden party; chapter xx. beginning a second portrait of the empress dowager; chapter xxi. a european circus at the palace; chapter xxii. palace customs.
- CHAPTER XXIII. HER MAJESTY'S ANXIETY-HER BIRTHDAYCHAPTER XXIV. THE WINTER PALACE; CHAPTER XXV. PEKING-BEGINNING THE PORTRAIT FOR ST. LOUIS; CHAPTER XXVI. SOME SOCIAL CUSTOMS; CHAPTER XXVII. PRESENT-GIVING; CHAPTER XXVIII. SOME WINTER DAYS AT THE PALACE; CHAPTER XXIX. RELIGIOUS RITES; CHAPTER XXX. HER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS DOWAGER; CHAPTER XXXI. HER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS DOWAGER (Continued); CHAPTER XXXII. THE CHINESE NEW YEAR; CHAPTER XXXIII. CONTINUATION OF THE ST. LOUIS PORTRAIT; CHAPTER XXXIV. FINISHING AND SENDING OFF THE PORTRAIT; CHAPTER XXXV. RETURN TO THE SUMMER PALACE.