- Intro.1The author as a boy 3
- 1.1Fairbank in front of his longtime home in Cambridge 12
- 1.2Benjamin Schwartz 14
- 1.3Fairbank teaching in his Widener Library study 16
- 1.4John Israel and Lloyd Eastman, two fellow graduate students at Harvard, enjoying themselves in a Taiwan restaurant, 1961 20
- 1.5My daughter Joanna in a pedicab, which took her to and from nursery school (Taipei, 1961) 23
- 1.6With friend singing in a Taiwan restaurant, 1961 25
- 1.7With Jonathan Mirsky performing in Chinese play, Taipei, 1961 30
- 2.1Wang Tao 39
- 3.1Philip Kuhn 68
- 4.1With Lin Tongqi 76
- 6.1The Battle of Tianjin 119
- 7.1With Wang Xi, Shanghai, November 2003 131
- 7.2Giving a talk in Shanghai, November 2003 132
- 7.3With Lu Yao in Ji’nan, October 2011 138
- 7.4Boxers setting fire to a church 148
- 7.5
Boxer leader Cao Futian in the Battle of Tianjin 154 - 8.1Yang Jiachang, “The busy men of May” 164
- 8.2The pain of national humiliation 168
- 8.3Shameless Chinese submit to foreigners, July 1900 170
- 8.4Me and Leo Lee clowning around in a Hong Kong restaurant 178
- 8.5With Jeff Wasserstrom and Ian Johnson at breakfast in a Hong Kong hotel (November 2017) 182
- 9.1Goujian sampling Fuchai’s stool 192
- 9.2Graphic depiction of “sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall” 193
- 9.3Advertisement for Golden Dragon (Jinlong) cigarettes 196
- 9.4Illustrated chart of national humiliation 197
- 9.5Banner at Houshan Scenic Area entrance announcing the added attraction created by the set from the TV film Yue wang Goujian, Shaoxing 205
- 9.6Wall painting of Goujian at King of Yue Temple (Yue wang dian), Shaoxing 206
- 10.1With Chris Munn in the University of Hong Kong Senior Common Room (November 2017) 211
- 10.2Drawing of Petar Petrović Njegoš (1813–51), artist unknown 215
- 10.3Joan of Arc in full armor astride her horse, engraving by Léonard Gaultier (1612) 218
- 11.1With my four children at the ninetieth birthday party of my sister Barbara in New York City (September 2017) 232