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  [Illustration: THE WAY IN.]




     INTIMATE
     CHINA

     The Chinese as I have
     seen them. By Mrs.
     Archibald Little, Author
     of _A Marriage in China_

     With 120 Illustrations

     HUTCHINSON & CO.
     Paternoster Row, London... 1899




     PRINTED BY
     HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, LD.,
     LONDON AND AYLESBURY.




CONTENTS.


     PRELUDE.

     FIRST IMPRESSIONS.

                                                                  PAGE

     Arriving in Shanghai.--My First Tea-season.--Inside a
     Chinese City.--Shanghai Gardens.--In the Romantic East at
     last!                                                           1


     CHAPTER I.

     ON THE UPPER YANGTSE.

     Boat-travel.--Vegetation.--Trackers.--Terrace of the
     Sun.--Gold Diamond Mountain.--Meng Liang's Ladder.--Great
     Szechuan Road.--Steamer Voyage.--Chinese Hades.--Caves         31


     CHAPTER II.

     A LAND JOURNEY.

     Large Farmsteads.--Wedding Party.--Atoning for an
     Insult.--Rowdy Lichuan.--Old-fashioned Inn.--Dog's
     Triumphal Progress.--Free Fight.--Wicked
     Music.--