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Includes: Introduction, consequences of the coup d'état of 1898, spheres of commercial and political influence, Russian occupation of Port Arthur. Persecution of Reformers.* The Boxer Movement; Attitude of the Court; attitude of the Provinces; Massacres; Siege of the Legations. Power of Provincial Officials. The Empress and the Reactionaries. The Emperor and Reformers. A Regency. The Heir Apparent. Shanghai, danger. The Yangtsze Viceroys. Mr Warren, HM Acting Consul-General. British Interests and Representation at Peking [Beijing]. China League, formation.* The American Asiatic Association. Anglo-German Agreement.* Manchuria, Russian interests. Treaty Revision, fiscal and administrative reform. Transit Passes.* Inland Navigation, definition of 'nei-ti'.* Shanghai Mixed Court, status and working.* Yo-chow, opening. Hankow [Hankou], Wuchang and the Peking [Beijing]-Canton [Guangzhou] Railway. Teintsin [Tianjin], territorial dispute.* Railway Concessions. The Upper Yangtsze, ascents.* The West River.* Piracy in the Two Kwangs. Canadian Pacific Mail Contract.* Titles to Land in Japan.* Chinese teaching scheme.* Appendices. The Political Situation in China, proposed publication of correspondence. Letters from the Eastern Branches on the Political Situation. Various documents bearing on the Political Situation, Britain Germany Agreement. Inland Transit and Tariff Reform. Appendices published in advance of the Annual Report for 1902:- The Political Situation, correspondence with the Foreign Office regarding the Indemnity to be paid by Peking [Beijing], Text of the Final Protocol reciting the Terms of Peace, Proclamation by the Foreign Ministers. Tariff Revision. Letters from the Eastern Branches on Tariff Revision, Mining Regulations, Most Favoured Nation Clause in Treaties, Note on Tariff Revision, Exports, and Peichili Ports Trade. Likin in Szechuan. The Project for teaching Chinese. Transfer and Taxation of Property in the Former Foreign Settlements in Japan. Public Meeting of the Eastern Branches, Shanghai Annual General Meeting. and Dinner, Hong Kong Luncheon to Admiral Seymour and to Major-General Gaselee in Kobe.
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