Abkhai, 18, 20; death of, 19

Aisin Gioro, 118

Akutêng, 4; death of, 6

Alabaster, Mr, 93

Albazin, 42

Amherst, Lord, 66

Amiot, Père, 42

Amoy, 42; taken, 77

Amur, River, 17; as boundary, 42

Amursana, 55

Ancestral worship, 44

An-chʽing, 86

Andijani, 100

Anglo-French expedition, 93; the second, 94

Annam, 58

Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, 33

Arabtan, 43

Archery, 37

"Arrow" case, the, 92

Artillery, 17

Assemblies, national and provincial, 122

Athalik Ghazi, 100

Audience, the first, 103

Badakshan, 43

Bannermen, 37

Banzai, 15

Baschpa, 11

Baturu, 88

"Blood thicker than water," 95

Bogue Forts taken, 77

Bokhara, Ameer of, 100

Boxers, the, 115

British fleet arrives, 76

"Brother of Christ," the, 82

Burgevine, 89

Burlingame mission, the, 102

Burma, 32, 56

"Button," the, 29

Cagliostro, 66

Calendar, the, 43; European adopted, 129

Camoens, 73

Cantlie, Dr, 124

Canton, riot at, 75; foreign houses burnt at, 93; captured, 93

Cantonese serve on British men-of-war, 78

Catalogue of Imperial Library, 59

Catholic missionaries, 33; rank accorded to, 114

Census, the, 48

Chapu taken, 77

Chi Hsiang, 98

Chia Ching, 61

Chia Chʽing, 61; attacked in streets of Peking, 64; died, 68

Chʽien Lung, 54; pictures of his victories, 55; abdicates, 59

Chihli, 3

Chin dynasty, 4

China proper, 41

"China's sorrow," 47

Chinese language, death for teaching to foreigners, 71

Chinkiang taken, 77; captured by Tʽai-pʽings, 85

Chʽing (or Great Pure) dynasty, 20; established, 28

Chino-Japanese war, 110

Christianity, 44; oppressed, 52; forbidden, 54; opposed, 112

Chʽung-hou, 101; condemned to death, 101; letter of apology to France, 103

Chusan occupied, 77

Cochin-China, 58

Co-hong system, 66

Coinage debased, 86

Concordance, Kʽang Hsi's, 50

Concubine thrown down well, 117

Confucian Classics, 59

Confucius, tomb of, 46

Constantine of China, the, 32

Court, flight of the, 116

Cycle, Chinese, 51

Dalai Lama, the, 33, 43

Davis, Sir J., 67

De Quincey, 57

Divine Justice Society, 64

Dominicans, 45

"Dummy Documents," 122

Dungans, 57

Dutch, the, embassy, 33; in Formosa, 35

Dwarf-nation, the, 109

Dynastic Histories, 59

Earthquake, 53

East India Company, 42, 67; policy of, 71

Edict, against missionaries, 45; for slaughter of all foreigners, 116; nullification of, 116; by baby Emperor, 125

Eighteen provinces, 41

Eleuths, 55

Elgin, Lord, 93, 94

Elliot, Captain, 74; retires to Hongkong, 76

Emperor, Chinese, carried off, 6

Empress, suspicious death of, 106

Empress, Eastern, 98; death of, 109

Empress, Western, see Empress Dowager

Empress Dowager, coups d'état, 98, 113; plot to get rid of, 113; flees, 116; death of, 121

Encyclopædia, Kʽang Hsi's, 50

Eunuchs, 14; army of, 15; restrictions on, 29; oppression by, 63

Ever Victorious Army, 89

Ever-White Mountains, 1

Examinations, established, 20; in poetical skill, 47; system, 112; to be changed, 118

Extra-territoriality, 79, 114

Feudatory princes, 29, 40; no more Chinese, 41

Flag, the Dragon, 133; the republican, 134; of truce, violated, 95

Formosa, 34, 56; ceded to Japan, 41, 42; Japanese land on, 105; republic in, 111

Fournier, Captain, 109

France, and Tongking, 109

Franciscans, 45

Galdan, 43

Galdan II., 55

Gao-tchan, 57

Genghis Khan, 7

German priests murdered, 111

Ginseng, 19

Gioros, 118

God, the term for, 46

Golden Dragon, the, 70

Golden dynasty, 5

Gordon, Major, 89; resigns, 90; resumes command, 90

Grand Canal, the, 47

Great Mogul, 33

Great Wall, the, 17

Gros, Baron, 93

Gurkhas, 58

Han-lin College, presents address, 30

Hangchow, 6, 31, 47

Harashar, 57

Hassan, prince, 104

Heaven and Earth Society, 65

Heavenly city, the, 84

Heavenly dynasty, the, 83

Heavenly king, the, 83; death of, 91

Heilungchiang, 8

Hingking, 10

Hongkong, ceded, 77

Hoppo, the, 119

Hsi Tsung, 14

Hsien Fêng, 80, 81; death of, 96

Hsiung-nu, 11

Hsü Ching-chʽêng, executed, 117

Hsüan Tʽung, deposed, 134; allowance of four million taels, 134

Hung Hsiu-chʽüan, 81

Hung League, 65

Huns, 11

Ili, 55

Immorality of foreigners, 108

Intermarriage prohibited, 37; proposed between Manchus and Chinese, 117

Iquon, 34

Japan, 8; and Korea, 110; war with China, 110

Japanese, 104

Jehangir, 69

Jehol, 58; Emperor flees to, 96, 115

Jesuits, 45, 52; make maps, 56

Kʽai-fêng, 2; siege of, 22

Kalmucks, 43; the trek of the, 56

Kʽang Hsi, 40; leads army, 43; as traveller, 46; and literature, 49; family troubles of, 50; death of, 51

Kʽang Yu-wei, 113

Kashgaria, 56, 69; Ameer of, 100

Khalkas, 43

Khokand, 43

Kiaochow, seized by Germany, 111

Kien Long, 54

Kin dynasty, 4

Kirin, 8

Kitans, 1

Koffler, A., S.J., 32

Kokonor, rebellion in, 53

Korea, 3; conquest of, 19; and Japan, 110

Kotow, the, 67

Koxinga, 34; canonized, 35

Kuan-tung, 8

Kuang Hsü, 106, 107; married, 109; informally deposed, 113; death of, 121

Kublai Khan, 7, 47

Kueichow, etc., aborigines of, 53

Kuldja, 56; annexed by Russia, 100; regained by Marquis Tsêng, 101

Kung, Prince, 96; his coup d'état, 116; joint regent with Empresses Dowager, 98

Kuo Sung-tao, 108

Laos tribes, 4

Lexicon, Kʽang Hsi's, 49

Lhasa, 43

Li Chin-chung, 14

Li Hung-chang, 89; treachery of, 90; wounded by assassin, 110

Li Tzŭ-chʽêng, 21; loses an eye, 22; defeated, 26; death of, 26

Liao dynasty, 2, 4

Liao-tung, 8

Liao-yang, 17

Likin, 87

Lim Boon-keng, Dr, 139

Lin, Commissioner, 75; destroys opium, 75; cashiered, 76; further career of, 84; death of, 85

Loch, Mr, captured, 95

Long-haired rebels, 84

Loo-choo islands, 104

Macao, 73; occupied by Portuguese, 73

Macartney, Lord, 58

Magalhaens, 53

Mahometans, 43; discontented, 100; crushed by Tso Tsung-tʽang, 101

Mahometanism, tolerated, 112

Man born good, 86

Manchuria, 8

Manchus, the, origin of, 1; etymology of name, 8; their script, 10; name as a title, 12; archers, 17; religion of, 20, 112; established as a dynasty, 29; garrisons, 36; language spoken at court, 49; literature, 49; bravery of soldiers, 77; England and the dynasty, 91; they monopolize fat posts, 110; to travel, young, 113; standard of education of, 118; indictment of rule of, 130

Miao-tzŭ, the, 54; how pacified, 70

Mings, the, dynasty of, 8; Emperor commits suicide, 24; attempts to restore, 31, 32; the Tombs, 47 (also under Kʽang Hsi); dynastic history of, 53

Mongolia, conquest of, 19

Mongols, the, 7; derivations of name, 7; recognize Manchu supremacy, 21

Morrison, Dr R., 67; his dictionary, 71; his Bible, 72

Mukden, 8; capture of, 16

Nanking, 6; treaty of, 79; captured by Tʽai-pʽings, 84; captured from Tʽai-pʽings, 91

Nan-yang, 32

Napier, Lord, 72; his death, 73

Napoleon, his opinion, 67

National Assembly, 127

Nepal, 56

Nestorians, the, 11; Tablet, 44

Nien-fei, 99

"Nine Thousand Years," 15

Ningpo, taken, 77

Ning-yüan, siege of, 17

Nurhachu, 9; death of, 18

Nü-chêns, 1

Nü-chih, 5

Oath, written in blood, 18; a forced, 94

Ogotai, 7

"Old Buddha," 135

One-eyed rebel, 24

Opaochi, 2

Opium, prohibited, 74; smuggled 74; smoking of prohibited, 120; exception to include Empress Dowager, 120

Ouigours, 11

Palmerston, Lord, 76

Panshen Erdeni, 58

Panthays, the, 103

Parkes, Mr, 92; captured, 95

Peacock's feather, 29

Peking, 2, 5; attack on, 19; captured, 24; surrendered, 96

Penal Code, the, 37

'Phagspa, 11

Pope, the, and ancestral worship, 45

Population, 48, 55

Port Arthur, captured by Japanese, 110; "leased" to Russia, 111

Ports, five opened to trade, 79

Portuguese mission, 53

Pottinger, Sir Henry, 77

Provinces, number of, 41

Ptolemaic system, 44

Quelpart, 8

Queue, the, 17; strictly enforced, 31; Tʽai-pʽings cut off the, 83

Railway, the Woosung, 108

Railways, ordered by edict, 111

Reform, edicts, 111; Empress Dowager pretends to favour, 117; constitutional, 122; again promised, 127

Regent, the, resigns, 127

Republic, the, authorized by Manchus, 134

"Revolt of the Tartars," 57

Revolution, the, 122

Ricci, 44

Russia, embassy from, 33; fear of, 73; war with Japan and its influence, 119

"Sam Collinson," 96

Schaal, Adam, 17, 43

Schlegel, Dr, 66

Secret Societies, 61, 65; their lodges, 66

Sêng-ko-lin-sin, defeated, 96

Shan States, 54

Shanghai, taken, 77

Shêngking, 8

Shimonoseki, treaty of, 110

Shun, dynasty, 22

Shun Chih, 29; death of, 33

Siege of the Legations, 115

"Slave" and "servant," 37

"Slay" changed to "protect," 117

Society of God, the, 82

Soochow, burnt by Imperialists, 87; capitulated, 90

Stanton, Sir George, 67

Su-shên tribe, the, 1

Succession violated, rule of, 106

Suleiman, sultan, 103

Summer palace, 67; burnt, 96; built on plan of Trianon, 97

Sun Yat-sen, 123; kidnapped in London, 123; enters Nanking, 129; elected first President, 129; manifesto by, 129; visits tomb of first Ming Emperor, 134; announces fall of Manchus, 135

Sungari, river, 3

Sungaria, 43

Sungs, dynasty of, 2; Southern, 6

Syriac, 11

Tʽai-pʽings, the dynasty, 83; manifesto, 83; successes, 84; advance on Peking, 85; slaughter of princes, 90; last prince and king murdered, 91; end of rebellion, 91

Tʽai-shan, ascent of by Kʽang Hsi, 46

Tʽai Tsu, 18

Tʽai Tsung, 20

Taku, forts taken, 94; repulse at, 95; captured, 95

Ta-li, 103; treacherously surrendered, 104

Tan-lo, 8

Tao Kuang, 69; death of, 80

Tartar general, 36

Tashilumbo, 58

Tatnell, Commander, 95

Tea, 39; mentioned by Pepys, 39; export from Foochow, 39

Tibet, 43, 56, 58

Tientsin, reached, 76; Treaty of, 94; ratification refused, 94; ratified, 97; massacre, 102

Timour, 57

Tobacco prohibited, 20

Tongking and France, 109

Torture of prisoners, 96

Trade, European, 71

Treaty with Russia, 42

Triad Society, 65

Trimetrical Classic, 86

Tsai Tsê's mission, Duke, 119

Tsêng Kuo-fan, 86

Tsêng, the Marquis, 101

Tsitsihar, 8

Tso Tsung-tʽang, 89; his campaign in Central Asia, 101

Tu Wên-hsiu, 103; death of, 104

Tʽung Chih, 98; married, 103; died, 106

Turguts, 56

Turkestan, 43, 57

Twist Rebels, 99

Types, movable, 50

Unicorn appears, 15

University for Peking, 112

Verbiest, 44

Viceroy, the, 36

Ward, and his troops, 89; death of and shrine to, 89

Wei Chung-hsien, 14

Wei-hai-wei, captured by Japanese, 110; "leased" to England, 111

Western Empress, 98

White Feather Society, 64

White Lily Society, 61

Wo-jen, his wish, 123

Wu-chʽang, 27

Wu Kʽo-tu, 107

Wu San-kuei, 21, 23; joins the Manchus, 26; his conditions, 28; his rebellion, 40; death of, 41

Ya-kʽo-sa, 42

Yakoob Beg, 100; assassinated, 101

Yang-tsze, the, 6

Yeh, Governor, 92; captured and exiled, 93

Yellow girdles, 118

Yellow riding jacket, 88; given to Gordon, 91

Yellow river, 2; changes its bed, 47

Young China party, 123; plot to seize Canton, 123

Yüan Chʽang, executed, 117

Yüan-ming-yüan, 96

Yüan Shih-kʽai, 124; appointed Prime Minister, 127

Yung Chêng, 52; his hostility to missionaries, 53; his death and character, 53