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X Kuang Hsü—As a Prisoner

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XI Prince Chün—The Regent

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XII The Home of the Court—The Forbidden City

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XIII The Ladies of the Court

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XIV The Princesses—Their Schools (Taken from Mrs. Headland's note-book.)

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XV The Chinese Ladies of Rank ([2] Taken from Mrs. Headland's note-book.)

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XVI The Social Life of the Chinese Woman

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XVII The Chinese Ladies—Their Ills ([4] Taken from Mrs. Headland's note-book.)

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XVIII The Funeral Ceremonies of a Dowager Princess ([5] Taken from Mrs. Headland's note-book.)

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XIX Chinese Princes and Officials

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XX Peking—The City of the Court

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XXI The Death of Kuang Hsü and the Empress Dowager

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XXII The Court and the New Education

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Dowager Empress As Goddess Of Mercy

[Description: frontispiece color painting of Empress on lotus pad, painted by a Chinese artist: Dowager...]

In this painting the Empress Dowager is represented as the "Goddess of Mercy,'' an attitude which she delighted to assume, with her rosary in her hand, standing upon a lotus petal and floating upon the waves of the sea. It was painted for the author by one of the leading portrait painters of Peking. (See page 90.)