Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them

PART II.--THE SIGHTS OF PEKING.

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Tibetan Buddhism.--Yellow Temple.--Confucian Temple.--Hall of the Classics.--Disgraceful Behaviour.--Observatory.--Roman Catholic Cathedral.--Street Sights.--British Embassy.--Bribes.--Shams.--Saviour of Society.--Sir Robert Hart 473