Contents.--I.Historical prologue. Six hundred miles up the Yangtsze. Hankow and the beyond. Some discourse on the Chinaman. On the Hankow-Peking railway. A hundred miles by cart. Kaifengfu, across the Yellow river and on to Peking. Trunk railways as political weapons. Peking under the foreign heel. The Chinese government and the Manchu court. The foreign services of China and their future. Three documents and sundry explanations. Tientsien, the Chihli viceroy and the present outlook. The disputed seas and the trade in contraband. Tsingtao and the Kiaochow territory. The colony of Kiaochow and the German programme. On the German railway from Tsingtao to the Shantung capital. Japan in war-time. Misrepresentations and misunderstandings. England and Japan. The heel of the Korean boot. From Fusan to Seoul by rail. Seoul, the pantomime capital.
II. Non-Japanese interests in Korea. Japan in Korea. How Korea saw the first acts of war. The great war (a) To the fall of Port Arthur. The great war (b) From the fall of Port Arthur. The great mistakes of the war. Far Eastern opinion about the war. Russo-Chinese and Chino-Japanese relations. Franco-Belgian scheming in the Far East. The peculiar attitude of the United States. China arming. China, her religions and the missionary question. Conclusion and suggestions. Appendices.