From the Book - First edition.
Prologue: Back to the beginning
The years before and the voyage East
An island amid revolutionary ferment
Twenty-four hours in Typhoid Town
Chance Encounters in Peking
Jade hunting at the thieves' market
Cinderella in the legation quarter
Romance at the End of the Great Wall
Cheering ponies and cherry brandy
The lotus-eater's dream shattered : leaving China
