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With the Empress Dowager of China

by Katharine A. Carl

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  1. 1With the Empress Dowager of China
  2. 2Introductory
  3. 3Chapter I — My Presentation and First Day at the Chinese Court
  4. 4Chapter II — Personal Appearance of Her Majesty — A Chinese Repast…
  5. 5Chapter III — The Palace of the Emperor’s Father (Prince Ch’un, the…
  6. 6Chapter IV — Her Majesty’s Throne-Room — Some Personal Characteristics
  7. 7Chapter V — The Young Empress and Ladies of the Court
  8. 8Chapter VI — Continuation of the Portrait — Her Majesty’s Dogs
  9. 9Chapter VII — Festivities at Court
  10. 10Chapter VIII — His Majesty the Emperor Kwang-Hsu
  11. 11Chapter IX — The Emperor’s Birthday
  12. 12Chapter X — Peking — The Sea Palace
  13. 13Chapter XI — Some Characteristics of Her Majesty — Second Visit to…
  14. 14Chapter XII — Return to the Summer Palace
  15. 15Chapter XIII — The Steam-Launch — Semi-Annual Sacrifices to Confucius
  16. 16Chapter XIV — The Palace Eunuchs
  17. 17Chapter XV — The Literary Tastes and Accomplishments of the Empress…
  18. 18Chapter XVI — The Great Audience Hall — Some Official Customs
  19. 19Chapter XVII — The Summer Palace and Its Grounds
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — The Festival of the Harvest Moon — Work on the Port…
  21. 21Chapter XIX — A Garden Party at the Summer Palace
  22. 22Chapter XX — I Begin a Second Portrait of Her Majesty — The Palace…
  23. 23Chapter XXI — A European Circus at the Palace
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Palace Customs
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Her Majesty’s Anxiety — Her Birthday
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — The Winter Palace
  27. 27Chapter XXV — Peking — Beginning the Portrait for St. Louis
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — Some Social Customs — Manchu and Chinese
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Present-Giving in China
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Some Winter Days at the Palace
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Religious Rites in China
  32. 32Chapter XXX — Her Majesty the Empress Dowager
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — The Empress Dowager’s Charities, Sense of Justice, E…
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — The Chinese New Year — Official Audience
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Continuation of the St. Louis Portrait — Spring Da…
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — Finishing and Sending Off the Portrait
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — Return to the Summer Palace

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