INDEX
Abdication Edict, the (278-87), text, [278-80]
Admiralty, inconvenient regulations of, [123]
Anti-foreign feeling, [14]; reversal of, [43]; see Boxer
Artillery, in action, [64-5], [68-9], [71-2], [74], [98]
Awakening of China, [273-4]
Boxer rising, [209]; due to enmity of North and South, [268]; directed against Manchus, yet exploited by the Dowager-Empress, [271-2]; collapse of, [272-3]
British authorities, weakness of, [119]; letter to Consul, [122-3]
British Concession, under fire, [108]
British trade in China, [25-8]
Cantlie, Dr., and the rescue of Sun Yat-sen from the Chinese Legation, [208-09]
Canton, outbreak at, [16]; conspiracy of 1895, [202-07]
Cartoons, anti-foreign, [241]
Cecil, Lord William, [30-2]
Central China Post on Manchu Dynasty, [260-2]
Chang Piao, General, [55], [58]; interview with, [61-2]; surrenders Nanking, [156-7]
Cheng-tu, siege of, [241]
Cheo, execution of, [277]
China, extent of, [13]
"China Under the Empress-Dowager," by Bland and Backhouse, [268]
China Press, the, [159]; on Republic or Monarchy, [196-200], [230]
Chinese, future of the, [19], [291]
Christianity in China, [30-1]; future of, [43]
Chwang-Lieh-ti, Emperor, hangs himself (1644), [259]
Civil Service, the Chinese, [262]
Clothing trade, the, [22]
Concessions, position of the, [118]
Concubinism, dangers of, [295]
Confucianism, [43]
Constitutional Monarchy, reasons in favour of, [143], [296]
Constitutional Provisional Republic, the, [214-20]
Corruption of Manchu Government, [18]
Coup d'état of 1898, [271]
Courage of Chinese troops, [111]
Court, Chinese, the, [297]
Courts of Justice, Republican, [219]
Cruelty of Imperialist troops, [140-2]
Der Ling, Princess, on causes of Reform, [291-8]
Dragon, the, [244]
Edict, the famous Revolutionary, of General Li, [276]; its provisions carried out, [277]
Education, the new, [284-5]
Emperor, of China, [31]; the child, [295-6]
Empress-Dowager, the, [226-32]; diverts the Boxers from their original aim, [271], [274], [291-7]
Eucken, Professor, on Reform, [286]
Extortion by torture, [203-04]; under the Manchus, [261]
Fleet, Imperial, at Hanyang, [69], [71]
Foreign Concessions, at Hanyang, [72], [119-21]
Foreign intervention not desired, [265-6]
Foreign Loans, [44]; feeling against, [238]
French, at Hankow, ask for troops, [118], [121]; wish to annex Yunnan, [259]
German trade in China, [25-8]
Gordon, General ("Chinese"), in the Taiping Rebellion, [195], [265]
Hai Yung, [112]; Chinese cruiser, in action, [114-15]
Hankow, [44]; premature outbreak in the Russian Concession, [49-50]; [53]; the Revolution commences in, [54], [58]; the burning of, [81-7]; looting of, [85]; ruin of, [267]
Hanyang, the arsenal taken, [57-58], [87]; threatened with a second bombardment, [96-8]; second battle of, [107-08]; final bombardment of, [125-32]; fall of, through treachery, [144]; [154]
Hanyang Hill, captured, [147]
Hat trade, captured by Japanese enterprise, [22]
Helena, U.S.A. launch, [58]
Hokwan, peculates twenty-six million sterling, [261]
Hsi-fan tribes, [251]
Hsuan Tung, H.I.M., [227]
Hsu-Ching-cheng, executed for saving Europeans, [271]
Hu Ying, Revolutionary delegate to the Peace Conference, [177-84]
Hunan, troops from, fate of deserters, [143]; refuse to fight, [148]
Hung Siu-tsuan, [263]
Hupeh, army of, [47-8], [58], [117]
Hwei-ti, Emperor, revolution in days of, [257]
Imperial Edict, the, [90-1], [153]
Imperialists, at Hanyang, [34], [62], [64]; victorious, [67]; [71]; courage of, [71-2]; [73]; massacre of refugees from Hankow, [85-6]; brutal behaviour of, [88]; surround Hankow, [107]; attack Hanyang, [128]; cruelty of, [138-41]; [145-6]
Japan, war with, [15]; her trade with China, [24-5], [28]; revolution in, [130]; victory over China, [273]
Jung Lu, to be beheaded, [224]; [269], [271]
Kaifeng, drowned out by Li-Tsi-cheng in 1642, [258]
Keen-lung, great Manchu Emperor, [260-2]
Kilometre Ten, Battle of, [68-72]
Knepper, Captain, [58]
Kung Ching, the, [52]
Kwang Lu, Emperor, in his Valedictory, hopes Yuan will be beheaded, [227]; [293-4]
Lee, Homer, General of Reform Cadets, [210]
Li Tsi-cheng, ends the Ming Dynasty, [258]; turns the Yellow River into the city of Kaifeng (1642), [258]; proclaims himself Emperor, [259]; his fall, [259], [273]
Li Yuan Hung, statement by, [33-5]; interview with, [37-45]; details of life, [45-6]; loth to lead the Revolutionists, [47]; [55]; his policy of "sit tight," [73]; his Edict, [89], [93-5]; appeals to Yuan, [103]; [107], [116-17]; anxious to stop slaughter, [147]; [149], [152]; asks for an armistice, [159]; [164-5]
Ling, General, takes Nanking, [158]; desires peace, [170]; [195]; his famous Edict, [276], [282]
Liu King, [47]; his story, [51-4]
Liu King, Mrs., to throw a bomb, [53]
Liu Yao-chen, [54]
Loans, foreign, literati object to, [238]
Lolo tribes, the, [251]
London and China Express, [122]
London Mission Hospital, [85], [109]
Macartney, Sir Halliday, and Sun Yat-sen's capture, [208]
McFarlane, Rev. H. J., [78], [80]
Machinery, belief that it takes away work and starves people, [238-9]
Manchu Dynasty, shaken, [134]; [153]; objection to, [188]; [192]; on trial, [229]; character of, [260]; China under the, [261]; universality of protest against, [282]; causes of downfall, [291]
Manchus, [15]; policy of, [17]; corruption and tyranny of, [17-18], [103-4]; originally called in to revenge a rape, [259]; character of, [294-5]
Manifesto of the Revolution, [16-19]
Marco Polo, [17]
Medhurst, C. S., on claims of Republic and Monarchy, [196-200]
Ming Dynasty, the last effort of, [194-5]
Missionaries, massacres of, [272]
Model army, the, [47], see Imperialists
Mohammedan Rebellion, the, [267]; apparently successful, [268]; suppressed, [268]
Monopolies, Manchu, [17]
Nanking, fall of, [39]; news of fall, [155]; account of, [156]; Provisional Republic proclaimed at, [210]; fall of, in Taiping Rebellion, [264]; taken by Gordon, [245]
Nanking, Treaty of, [263]
National assembly, [215], [229-30]
National Convention, [220]
Nationalisation of Railways, cause of, Sze-Chuan rebellion, [235]
Navy, the, [39]
Nestorian tablet, [17]
Nou-su tribes, [251]
Northern army, the, [75], [97]
"One Aim Society," the, [240]
Outlawry, [14]
Panthays, capture Yunnan, [267]
"Patriotic Harmony Bands," see Boxers
Patriotism, in China, [111], [270]
Peace Conference, the, [185]; disappointment follows, [196]; "fizzles out," [196]
Pekin, Government, the, [15]; strong position of, [189-91]; disorders in 1912, [212-13]; taken by Allies (1900), [272]
People, The, [51-2]
"Plum Blossom Fists," [269-70]
Powers, European, ignorance of Chinese temper, [270]
President of China, the, [39]
Privileges, Manchu, [17]
Provisional Military Association, the, [210]
Provisional Republican Constitution, the, [214-20]
Queue, cutting of the, [194]
Railways, nationalisation of, [235-7]; condition of Chinese, [237]
Recognition of the Republic, [220]
Redheads, in the Taiping rebellion, [265]
Reform, Yuan paralyses, [224-5]; [286-7]; outlook for, [288-98]; inland, [289-90]
Reform Cadets, [210]
Reform Edict, of 1898, [284]
Regent, the, [134]; resigns, [230-1]
Republic, the, proclaimed, [16]; recognition of the, [151]; proclamation by Dr. Wu Ting Fang, [151-2]; difficulties in way of, [193]; general support of, [195]; established as a world Power, [281]; ideal of the, [288]
Revolution of 1400, [257]
Revolution of 1911; planned years ago, [15]; causes of, [38]; outbreak of, [47-8]; plans of, [53]; movement abroad, [201]; sincerity of movement, [283]
Revolutionary troops, at Hanyang, reversed, [65]; courage of, [73]; excellent behaviour of, [89]; confidence of, [117]; good behaviour at taking of Nanking, [159]; general good behaviour of, [282]
Run-chung-yung, [54]
Sah, Admiral, [40], [62]; at Hanyang, [71]; his bluff, [72-3]; appealed to by students of Hanyang and Hankow, he is converted to Revolution, [100-1]
Shanghai, Peace Conference of, [174-5], (185-200)
Shantung, goes over to the Revolutionists, [125]
Sian-fu, Nestorian tablet of, [17]; massacre of foreigners in, [165]
Son of Heaven, ceremonial, [195]
Students, influence of, [16]
Suffrage, universal, proposed by Sun Yat-sen, [197]
Sun Yat-sen, [15], [16], [40], [45], [51]; arrives in Shanghai, [196]; the coming of, (201-22); character and adventures, [202]; the Canton conspiracy, [202]; captured in London, [207-8]; swindled in Japan, [209]; escapes to Annam and returns to America, [210]; proclaimed President at Nanking, [210]; the price on his head, [211]; studies medicine, [212]; retires in favour of Yuan, [213]; his oath, [213]; [282]
Sun Wu, causes premature outbreak of revolution, [50], [53]
Sze-Chuan, revolt of, against nationalisation of railways, [235]; slaughter in, [241]; present disorder in, [241-2]; tribal element in, [242], [245-6], [252]
Ta Ts'ing Dynasty, [256]
Taiping Rebellion, [195], [263-5], [267], [269], [273]
Tang-Shao-yi, Yuan's delegate at the Peace Conference, [172-6], [186-7]; favours a Republic, [188]; his powers repudiated by Yuan, [196]
Tartars, reaction against the, [193-4]
Tibet, Chinese policy in, [248-9]
Times, editorial, [55-6]; prophesies failure of Revolution, [155]
Torpedo-boats at Wuchang, [113-14]
Trade, restrictions of, [18]; increase to be expected, [21-9]
Tribes in Sze-Chuan, [245-6]; their hatred of Chinese, [248], [251]; China's great weakness, [251]
Tuan-Fang, Director-General of Railways, [236]; his disgrace, [236]; reinstated, [236]; killed by his men, [241]; sketch of, [252-4]; disgrace of, [255]; protects missions, [269]
United States of America, action of, [155]
United States of China, probable, [195]
United Universities scheme, [275]
Viceroy of Hankow, the, [54-5]
Wang-change-hui, [186]
Wang-Chao-naing, [186]
Wang-Cheng-ting, [186]
Ward, General, in the Taiping Rebellion, [265]
Wen Tsang-yao, [185]
White, Miss T. C. (Princess der Ling), [261]
White Lily Society, [269]
Winsloe, Rear-Admiral, [72], [123]
Women soldiers, [53]
Wong, Mr., [163]
Woodcock, H.M.S., [109]
Wounded at Hanyung, [131-3]
Wu, General, [126]
Wu San-Kwei, calls in the Manchus to avenge his mistress, [259]
Wu Ting Fang, Dr., [40], [152], [173], [185], [187]
Wuchang, outbreak at, [16], [33-4], [47], [72-3]; stronghold of Revolutionists, [92]; fighting round, [98-100], [124]; evacuation of, [167-9]; modern army of, [224]
Yakub Beg, leader of the Mohammedan Revolt, [267]
Yangtze River, [189]
Yen, Prince (Emperor Ch'eng-Tsu), his rebellion in A.D. 1400, [257]
Yin Chang, General, [62]
Young China Party, [242-3], [245]
Yu Hsien, massacres missionaries, [272]
Yuan-Ch'ang, executed for saving Europeans, [271]
Yuan-Shih-Kai, [39-40], [75-7], [93]; his letter to General Li, [94-5]; promises a Constitutional Government and abolition of the Manchu princedoms, [95]; his army, [97]; Li's appeal to him, [103-06]; [117-18], [125]; his plea for a monarchy, [135]; official statement, [159-61]; negotiations at the Peace Conference, [113-15]; [190], [196]; proclaimed President, but loses hold in Pekin, [213]; character-sketch of, [221-2]; "Yuan the Reformer," [223]; forms the Model Army, [224]; betrays the Emperor, [225]; the first man in China, [226]; his fall, [227]; recalled to Pekin as Prime Minister, [228]; to form a Reform Government, [229]; in favour of limited monarchy, [229], [233]; an enigma, [234]
Yunnan, Mohammedan rebellion in, [248], [267]
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