Volume 1: Preface; 1. Introductory observations bearing on the present and future of China; 2. Barriers in the way of progress in China; 3. Moral forces in China; 4. Receptivity of the Chinese; 5. The country and its government; 6. Civilization and means of intercommunication; 7. Province of Shan-Tung; 8. Province of Chih-Li; 9. The Province of Shan-Si; 10. Provinces of Shen-Si, Kan-Su, and Honan; 11. The terrace deposits in North China; 12. Journey round the Shan-Tung promontory; 13. From Peking to Che-Foo via Grand Canal, and the country of Confucius and Mencius; 14. Journey through the provinces of Chih-Li, Shan-Si, and a portion of Shen-Si and Honan; 15. Journey through Chih-Li, Shan-Si, etc. continued; 16. Journey through Chih-Li, Shan-Si, etc. continued; 17. Journey through Chih-Li, Shan-Si, etc. continued; 18. Journey through Chih-Li, Shan-Si, etc. continued; 19. Journey through the southern and central portions of Shan-Tung. Volume 2: 1. Inner, or Eastern Mongolia; 2. Southern Manchuria; 3. Kirin, or Central Manchuria; 4. Mr Meadows on the history of the Manchus; 5. Journey from Peking through Inner Mongolia via Je-Hol, Lama-Maiu, and Kal-gan; 6. Journey through Inner Mongolia, continued; 7. Journey through Inner Mongolia, continued; 8. Journey from Che-Foo to Peking via New-Chwang; 9. Journeys through Southern and South-Eastern Manchuria; 10. Journey through the North-Western portion of Southern Manchuria, Eastern Mongolia, and Central and Northern Manchuria; 11. Journey through Northern Manchuria, etc. continued; 12. Journey through Northern Manchuria, etc. continued; 13. Journey through Northern Manchuria, etc. continued; 14. Journey through Shan-Tung and Keang-Su to Nankin and Shanghai; 15. Corea; 16. Peking Joseph Edkins; Appendix.