The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland is about Mr. Headland and his friend Mrs. Yin as they investigate Mother Goose's beloved nursery rhymes. Excerpt: "It is a mistake to suppose that any one nation or people has the exclusive right to Mother Goose. She is an omnipresent old lady. She is Asiatic as well as European or American. Wherever there are mothers, grandmothers, and nurses there are Mother Gooses,—or; shall we say, Mother Geese—for I am at a loss as to how to pluralize this old dame. She is in India, whence I have rhymes from her, of which the following is a sample: Heh, my baby! Ho, my baby! See the wild, ripe plum..."

This is a book recording the normal life of some ordinary Chinese with plenty of excellent essays and pictures. China boasts an ancient civilization of 5,000 years, which has nourished the hearts and souls of all Chinese and could also help explain all good and bad things in the characters of the Chinese nation. The ordinary Chinese have diversified experiences and destinies, and of course, different personalities, too. Nevertheless, they share many similarities which are deeply rooted in the country's ancient civilization. In this book the many diverse lives of some "ordinary" Chinese are brought together, uniting them as a people and yet granting them their undeniable individuality. In its second volume, Chinese Stories continues to deliver the stories of the everyday modern Chinese with all their diversity and unwavering devotion to hold on to their culture by tradition.