China and the Chinese

by Herbert Allen Giles

INDEX

• Account of Strange Nations, book in Cambridge collection, [58].
• Albinos, Chinese, [181].
• Alchemy, Taoist practice, [166].
• Analects, Confucian Canon, [42].
• Ancestral worship, China, [199].
• Ancestry of Chinese traced through mother in ancient times, [27].
• Ancient Greece, see Greece.
• "And," idea in Chinese written character, [28].
• Archæology—
  • Chinese dictionaries and work, [120].
  • Confucian Canon, archæological works referring to, [43].
  • "Ark," erroneous analysis of Chinese written character, [34].
• Athenian and Chinese women, points of resemblance, [121].
• Baby Towers, Chinese infanticide, [190].
• Bactria—
• • Alchemy, practice imported into China, [166].
  • Mission of Chang Ch'ien, [130].
• Bamboo tables, style of Chinese writing, [26].
• Biographies—
  • Historical Record, [46].
  • National and private records, [49].
• Biographies of Eminent Women, description, [50].
• Bird-Bishop, Mrs., statement as to infanticide, [192], [193].
• Black art, Taoism, [168].
• Black-haired People, title of Chinese, [181].
• Book of Changes, Confucian Canon, [40].
• Book of History, Confucian Canon, [41].
• Book of Odes, see Odes.
• Book of Music, Confucian Canon, [42].
• Books of Rites, Confucian Canon, [42].
• Books, Chinese, see Library, Cambridge University.
• Buddhism in China—
  • Borrowing from Tao, [172].
  • Buddhist priest anecdote, [138].
  • Cambridge collection, Buddhist works, [44].
  • Date of appearance, [171], [172].
  • Struggle with Taoism, [172].
• Burning of the Books, [44], [129].
• Butchers, tax on, resisted, [93].
• Calendars, Greek and Chinese, similarities, [129].
• Cambridge University library, see Library.
• Canon, see Confucian Canon.
• Canton—
  • Dogs' flesh shops, [207].
  • Riot, 1880, [99].
• Catalogue of books in Imperial Library, China, [69].
• Ceremonies, valued by Confucius, [182].
• Chamberlain, J., eyeglass remarked on by Li Hung-chang, [182].
• Chang Ch'ien, mission to Bactria, [130].
• Chang Chih-tung, viceroy, bridge incident, [97].
• Changes, Book of, Confucian Canon, [40].
• Charities, Chinese, [193].
• Characters of Chinese language, see Language.
• Ch'ien Lung, Emperor, catalogue enterprise, [69].
• Children—
  • Fondness of parents for, [194].
  • Girls, see that title.
  • Infanticide, see that title.
  • Nursery rhymes published by Baron Vitale, [206].
  • Toys, passage in the Odes, [195].
• China—
  • Albinos, [181].
  • Alchemy, [166].
  • Ancestral worship, [199].
  • Ancestry traced through mother in ancient times, [27].
  • Anecdote, Grecian, in Chinese jest-book, [138].
  • Archæology, see that title.
  • Bactria, see that title.
  • Biographies, see that title.
  • Black art, [168].
  • Buddhism, see that title.
  • Burning of the Books, [44], [129].
  • Calendars, Grecian characteristics, [129].
  • Cambridge University library, see Library.
  • Canton, see that title.
  • Chang Ch'ien, mission to Bactria, [130].
  • Charities, [193].
  • Children, see that title.
  • City sights resembling Grecian, [122].
  • Clocks, see that title.
  • Columbia University, endowment of Chinese chair, [4], [37], [211].
  • Combination, [92].
  • Confucius and Confucian Canon, see those titles.
  • Counting board, likeness to Grecian, [128].
  • Crucifixion, alleged punishment, [193].
  • "Crying one's wrongs," [101].
  • Customs varying with places, [207].
  • Dictionaries, see that title.
  • Diplomatists, see Statesmen.
  • Doctors, "horse-money," etc., [209].
  • Dogs' flesh, Canton shops, [207].
  • Drama, see Plays.
  • Dress, see that title.
  • Dutch settlement, story of, [137].
  • Dynasties and Dynastic histories, see those titles.
  • Education, see that title.
  • Elixir of life, [163].
  • Emperors, see that title.
  • Encyclopædias, see that title.
  • Entertainments, Grecian points of contact, [126].
  • Erroneous ideas of Chinese life, [189].
  • Etiquette, see that title.
  • Exaggeration, fault of Chinese, [193].
  • Execution substitutes, erroneous idea, [208].
  • Eyeglasses, see that title.
  • Facial differences of Chinese, [177].
  • First impressions of foreigners, [177].
  • Foot-binding, see that title.
  • Games, Grecian similarities, [126].
  • Girls, see that title.
  • Government, see that title.
  • Greek influence, see Greece.
  • Guests, see Visitors.
  • Hair, see that title.
  • Han Yü, great works of, [117].
  • Hankow military riot, 1882, [97].
  • "Heavenly horse", [131].
  • "Henpecked husbands", [204].
  • History, see that title.
  • Horses, see that title.
  • House, Greek characteristics, [120].
  • Huai-nan, Prince of, see that title.
  • Immortality, see that title.
  • Infanticide, see that title.
  • Ivory carvings, Grecian resemblances, [124].
  • Jesuits in China, see that title.
  • Jews, [144].
  • Jugglers similar to Grecian, [124].
  • Justice, see that title.
  • K'ang Hsi, Emperor, see that title.
  • Kiangsu riot, [99].
  • Language, see that title.
  • Lao Tzŭ, see Taoism.
  • Library, Cambridge University, see that title.
  • Library, Imperial, catalogue, [69].
  • Li Hung-chang, see that title.
  • "Lion," word for, [23], [133].
  • Literary qualities of nation, [72].
  • Literature, see that title.
  • Magic, see that title.
  • Magistrates, see that title.
  • Mahommedanism, [143].
  • Manchus, imprisonment, 1891, people's fury, [98].
  • Mandarin language and Mandarins, see those titles.
  • Manichæans, [144].
  • Marriage customs, see that title.
  • Mencius, see that title.
  • Mental and moral training, relative values of Greek and Chinese, [109].
  • Mirrors, ancient Chinese and Greek, [132].
  • Murder, conviction for, illustrations, [103].
  • Music, see that title.
  • Mystery—the Chinaman a mystery, [206], [208].
  • Nestorian Christians, [143].
  • Newspaper extracts, [209].
  • Novels, [61].
  • Official coats, "horse-shoe sleeves," [179].
  • Official positions, see that title.
  • Olive, Greek and Chinese associations, [128].
  • Opposites—China regarded as land of opposites, [119], [210].
  • Penal code, [56], [87].
  • Personal freedom, [87].
  • Plays, see that title.
  • Poetry, see that title.
  • Population, vastness of, [3].
  • Portrait-painting, see that title.
  • Protestant missionaries, [144].
  • Puppet shows, alleged origin, [123].
  • Quails, fighting, common custom in Greece and China, [126].
  • Queue see that title.
  • Readers, professional, [61].
  • Religions, see that title.
  • Rhyme, [67].
  • Riots—people's self-government, [97].
  • Rip Van Winkle, story of, [55].
  • Roman Catholicism, [144].
  • Romance of Three Kingdoms, novel, [61].
  • Self-government, illustrations, [69].
  • Self-taxation, see Taxation.
  • Senior Classics see that title.
  • Social life, knowledge of, [181].
  • Spanish seizure of islands, method of, [136].
  • Statesmen, see that title.
  • Statutes of present dynasty, [56].
  • Story-tellers, [61], [123].
  • Street etiquette and rights, [183].
  • Study of Chinese affairs—
    • Advantages of study, [140], [211].
    • Columbia University endowment, [4], [37], [211].
    • Language, see that title.
    • People, study of, [205].
    • Recent growth of study, [3].
    • Students needed, [139], [208], [211].
  • Taoism, see that title.
  • Taxation see that title.
  • Viceroys, [76], [82], [83].
  • Visitors, see that title.
  • Water-clocks, Grecian, [128].
  • Watermelon, term for, Greek origin, [134].
  • Wên T'ien-hsiang, influence of Chinese literature and training on, [113].
  • Western incidents in literature, [135].
  • Widows, [201].
  • Wine, introduction of grape-wine, [131].
  • Wine-drinking, see that title.
  • Women, see that title.
  • Wuchang bridge incident, [97].
  • Zebra, picture of, in ancient Chinese book, [59].
  • Zoroastrians in, [144].
• Christians, Nestorian, in China, [143].
• Christianity and ancestral worship in China, [109].
• Chuang Tzŭ, Taoist writer, [148], [154-160], [165], [171].
• Chu Hsi, commentary, [43].
• Chung-king, tax on pigs resisted, [93].
• Circuits, division of provinces into, [76], [83].
• Classics, study of, relative values of Chinese and Greek training, [109].
• Clocks, Chinese—
  • Newspaper extract, [210].
  • Water-clocks, Grecian and Chinese, [128].
• Coats, official, "horse-shoe sleeves," [179].
• Colloquial language, see Language.
• Columbia University, endowment of Chinese chair, [4], [37], [211].
• Combination against taxation, [92].
• Commentaries, Confucian Canon, [43].
• Commissioners, provincial government, [81].
• Concordance to phraseology of Chinese literature, [65].
• Confucian Canon, Cambridge University Library—
  • Analects, [42].
  • Archæological works, [43].
  • Book of Changes, [40].
  • Book of History, [41].
  • Book of Music, [42].
  • Book of Odes, see Odes.
  • Book of Rites, [42].
  • Commentaries, [43].
  • Conversations of Mencius with disciples, [42].
  • Doctrine of the Mean, [42].
  • Five Classics, [40].
  • Four Books, [42].
  • Great Learning, [42].
  • Spring and Autumn, [41].
• Confucius—
  • Acquaintance with Lao Tzŭ alleged, [146].
  • Confucian Canon, see that title.
  • Maxims and sayings, [182], [205].
  • Unwelcome visitor anecdote, [185].
  • Value of ceremonial, [182].
• Counting-board, Chinese, likeness to Grecian, [128].
• Crucifixion, alleged punishment in China, [193].
• "Crying one's wrongs," [101].
• Cumming, Miss G.—infanticide in China, [189].
• Dialects, Chinese language, [6].
• Dice games in Greece and China, [126].
• Dictionaries, Chinese—
• • Cambridge library collection—
    • Concordance to phraseology, [65].
    • Hsü Shên, work of, [63].
    • Modern standard dictionary, [64].
  • Encyclopædias, see that title.
  • Lao Tzŭ's treatise, characters not found in dictionary, [149].
• Dinner, invitation to, [188].
• Diplomatists, see Statesmen.
• Doctors, Chinese, "horse-money," etc., [209].
• Doctrine of the Mean, Confucian Canon, [42].
• Doctrines, see Religions.
• Dogs' flesh, Canton shops, [207].
• Drama, see Plays.
• Drawing, chapters on, in Chinese encyclopædia, [53].
• Dress, Chinese—
  • Official coats, [179].
  • Veils for women, abolition of, [197].
• Dress, Japanese, misconception as to, [178].
• Dutch settlement in China, story of, [137].
• Dyeing the hair, practice of, [180].
• Dynastic histories—
  • Cambridge collection—
    • Biographies, see that title.
    • Edition of 1747, [45].
    • Encyclopædias, see that title.
    • Historical Record, see that title.
    • Mirror of History, by Tsŭma Kuang.
    • Penal Code, [56].
    • Record in Dark Blood, [57].
    • Reprints, [55].
    • Statutes of present dynasty, [56].
    • "Veritable Record", [48].
  • Woman's work, [197].
• Dynasties of China—
  • Histories, see Dynastic histories.
  • History compilation custom, [47].
  • Ming dynasty, see that title.
  • Statutes of present dynasty, [56].
• Education—
• • Value of, [72], [79].
  • Women, [197].
• Elixir of life, Taoist doctrine, [163], [170].
• Emperors of China—
  • Ch'ien Lung, catalogue enterprise, [69].
  • Government of the Emperor, [75].
  • K'ang Hsi, see that title.
  • Ming dynasty, character and end of last Emperor, [117].
• Encyclopædias, Cambridge collection, [51]
  • Arrangement, [54].
  • Drawing, chapters on, [53].
  • Portrait-painting topic, [53].
  • San T'sai Tu Hui, [52].
  • [See also Dictionaries.]
• England, Cambridge University library, see Library.
• English—"pidgin" English, [17].
• Entertainments, Chinese and Grecian, [126].
• Etiquette—
  • Glasses, removal when conversing, [183].
  • Street etiquette, [183].
  • Visitors, see that title.
• Exaggeration, Chinese, [193].
• Execution substitutes, erroneous idea, [208].
• Eyeglasses—
  • Chamberlain's, J., remarks by Li Hung-chang, [182].
  • Chinese etiquette, removal of spectacles, [183].
• Family Library, Chinese reprints.
• Fay, Miss, student of Chinese, [6].
• Fielde, Miss, student of Chinese, [6].
• Finance commissioner, provincial official, [81].
• Five Classics, Confucian Canon, [40].
• Foot-binding—
• • Edicts prohibiting, [203].
  • Fashion, obstacle to abolition, [202].
• Fulangbis, seizure of islands from China, [136].
• Fusang, account of, in Chinese book, [58].
• Games, Chinese, similarity to Grecian, [126].
• Geography, Chinese, Cambridge collection, [57].
• Girls—
• • Education, [197].
  • Foot-binding, see that title.
  • Market value, [195].
  • [See also Women]
• Glasses, see Eyeglasses.
• "God," analysis of Chinese written character, [33].
• Government—
  • Circuits, [76], [83].
  • "Crying one's wrongs," [101].
  • Dynasties, see that title.
  • Emperors, see that title.
  • Headboroughs, [77].
  • Justice, see that title.
  • Magistrates, see that title.
  • Mandarins, see that title.
  • Mencius, quotations from, [84].
  • Ming dynasty, see that title.
  • Official positions, see that title.
  • Penal Code, [56], [87].
  • Prefectures, [76], [83].
  • Provincial government, see that title.
  • Scale of governors, [78].
  • Self-government illustrations, [96].
  • Viceroys, [76], [82], [83].
• Governors of provinces, [76], [83].
• Grain commissioner, provincial official, [81].
• Granville, Lord, influence of the classics on, [112].
• Grammar, Chinese, absence of, [10].
• Grape-wine introduced into China, [131].
• Great Learning, Confucian Canon, [42].
• Greece, ancient Greece and China—
  • Archæology, Greek and Chinese, [120].
  • Bactria, see that title.
  • Buddhist priest anecdote in Chinese jest-book, [188].
  • Calendars, [129].
  • City sights in China, [123].
  • Classics, relative values of Chinese and Greek training, [109].
  • Coincidences between Chinese and Greek civilisations, [120].
  • Counting-board, [128].
  • Entertainments, [126].
  • Games, [126].
  • "Heavenly horse," [131], [133].
  • House, Chinese, Greek characteristics, [120].
  • Ivory carvings, [124].
  • Language, terms of abuse, [124].
  • Literatures of China and western nations, analogies, [135].
  • Marriage, similar customs, [122].
  • Mirrors, [132].
  • Music, [129].
  • Olives, [128].
  • Plays, [125].
  • Quails, fighting, [126].
  • Question of Greek influence, [130].
  • Water-clock, [128].
  • Wine-drinking, [126].
  • Women, points of resemblance, [121].
  • Words, Chinese, Greek origin, [133].
• "Guess-fingers," game of, common to Greece and China, [126].
• Guests, see Visitors.
• Hair—
• • Black-haired People, title of Chinese, [181].
  • Dyeing, [180].
  • False hair, [180].
  • Queue, see that title.
• Han Fei Tzŭ, writer on Taoism, [148].
• Hangchow tea strike, [95].
• Hankow military riot, 1882, [97].
• Han Yü, statesman, great works of, [117].
• Headboroughs, government of Chinese boroughs, [77].
• "Heavenly horse," origin of, [131], [133].
• Hebrews in China, [144].
• "Henpecked husbands," [204].
• Historical Record—
  • Alchemy, [166].
  • Sketch of contents, [45].
• History—
  • B.C., [130].
  • Book of History, Confucian Canon, [41].
  • Dynastic histories, see that title.
  • Mirror of History, [49].
• Holland—story of Dutch settlement in China, [137].
• "Horse-money," Chinese doctors' fees, [209].
• Horses—
  • "Heavenly horse," [131], [133].
  • Official coats, "horse-shoe sleeves," [179].
  • Respect for, origin of queue, [179].
• House, Chinese, Greek characteristics, [120].
• Hsü Shên dictionary, [63].
• Huai-nan, Prince of—
  • Discovery of elixir of life, [168].
  • Taoist writings, [149].
• Husbands, "henpecked," [204].
• Immortality, Taoist doctrine—
• • Elixir of life, [163].
  • Memorial of aggrieved Confucianist, [170].
  • Pills of immortality concocted, effect of, [167].
• Imperial Library catalogue, [69].
• Imperial statutes, present Chinese dynasty, [56].
• Inaction, doctrine of, Lao Tzŭ's philosophy, [152], [156].
• Infanticide—
  • Baby Towers, [190].
  • Bird-Bishop, Mrs., statement of, [192].
  • Chinese exaggeration, [192].
  • Cumming, Miss G., writings of, [189].
  • Drowning children in pools, [192].
  • Jesuit writings, illustrations, [192].
  • Market value of girls, [195].
  • Negative argument, [193].
  • [See also Children.]
• Intendant of circuit, official, [76], [83].
• Invitation to dinner, [188].
• Ivory carvings, Greek and Chinese, [124].
• Japan—
• • Dress, misconception as to, [178].
  • Language, absence of terms of abuse, [124].
• Jebb, Sir K., influence of the classics in mental training, case of Lord Granville, [109].
• Jesuits in China—
  • Infanticide illustrations in writings, [192].
  • Music of Greeks borrowed from Chinese, alleged, [129].
  • Translation of Chinese character into "ark," [34].
• Jews in China, [144].
• Jugglers, Chinese and Grecian, [124].
• Justice—
  • Administration of, [102].
  • Commissioner of, [81].
• K'ang Hsi, Emperor—
• • Dictionary and phrase-concordance ordered, [64], [65].
  • Foot-binding prohibited by, [203].
• Kiangsu riot, [99].
• Language, Chinese—
• • Colloquial—
    • Coupling of words, [20].
    • Dialects, number and distinction of, [6].
    • Lack of vocables, [17].
    • Mandarin, see that title.
    • Monosyllables, incapable of inflection, [10].
    • Rhyme, [67].
    • Simpleness of study, [4].
    • Suffixes, [21].
    • Tenses, [13].
    • Tones, see that title.
  • Dialects, number and distinction of, [6].
  • Dictionaries, see that title.
  • Grammar, absence of, [10].
  • Greek words, [133].
  • "Lion," word for, [23].
  • Mandarin language, see that title.
  • "Pidgin" English, [17].
  • Study of—
    • Advantages and objects of study, [107].
    • Relative values of Chinese and Greek, [109].
    • Students of Chinese wanted, [139].
    • Women students—Misses Fay and Fielde, [6].
  • Terms of abuse, [124].
  • Tones, see that title.
  • Written—
    • Bamboo tablets, [26].
    • Conjunction "and," [28].
    • Difficulty of study, [5].
    • Errors in analysis of words, [33].
    • Non-application of rule in cases, [32].
    • Number of words, [18], [19].
    • Origin and development, [25].
    • Paper, invention of, [26].
    • Parts of written characters, [22].
    • Phonetic basis and indicator, [29]
      • Hsü Shên dictionary, [63].
      • Modern standard dictionary, [64].
    • Pictures of words and ideas, [25].
    • Uniformity all over China, [22].
• Language, Japanese, absence of terms of abuse, [124].
• Lao Tzŭ, see Taoism.
• Library, Cambridge University, collection of Chinese books—
  • Account of strange nations, [58].
  • Binding of volumes, etc., [40].
  • Biographies, see that title.
  • Buddhist works, [44].
  • Catalogue of Imperial Chinese Library, [69].
  • Collection of the books, [39].
  • Concordance to phraseology of all literature, [65].
  • Confucian Canon, see that title.
  • Dictionaries, see that title.
  • Division A, [40].
  • Division B, [45].
  • Division C, [47].
  • Division D, [60].
  • Division E, [63].
  • Dynastic histories, see that title.
  • Encyclopædias, see that title.
  • Geography of the Empire, [57].
  • Historical collection, see Dynastic histories.
  • Illustrated books—notices of Senior Classics of Ming dynasty, [70].
  • Novels, [61].
  • Number of volumes, [40].
  • Oldest printed book in the library, [58].
  • Plays, [62].
  • Poetry, [60].
  • Reference works, [63].
  • Reprints, [55].
  • T'ai-p'ing rebels, pamphlets, [56].
  • Taoist writings, [44].
  • Topographies, [57].
• Library, Imperial, China, catalogue, [69].
• Life, elixir of, Taoist doctrine, [163].
• Li Hung-chang—
  • Diplomatic abilities, [112].
  • Remark on Mr. Chamberlain's eyeglass, [182].
• Likin, self-taxation of Chinese, [89].
• "Lion," Chinese word for, [23], [133].
• Literary qualities of Chinese nation, [72].
• Literature, Chinese—
  • Cambridge University library, see Library.
  • Concordance to phraseology, [65].
  • Relative values of Chinese and Greek in mental and moral training, [109].
  • Western incidents in, [133].
• Liu Hsiang, Biographies of Eminent Women, [50].
• Luzon (Philippines), Spanish seizure, [136].
• Magic—
• • Jugglers, Chinese and Grecian, [124].
  • Taoist black art, [168].
• Magistrates—
  • Advancement in ranks, [78].
  • Deputy official, test of, [79].
  • Division of prefectures into magistracies, [76].
  • Duties, [80].
  • Expenses of education no obstacle, [79].
  • Income, [82].
  • Law experts in offices, [56].
  • Real rulers of China, [78].
• Mahommedanism in China, [143].
• Manchus, imprisonment, 1891, people's fury, [98].
• Mandarin language—
  • Importance of "official language," [7].
  • Sounds for conveyance of speech, lack of, [17].
  • Study of, [10].
  • [See also Language.]
• Mandarins—
  • Meeting in street, [186].
  • Seal of office, [198].
• Manichæans in China, [144].
• Marriage customs—
  • Grecian customs, similarity of, [122].
  • Widows, [201].
  • Wives, number of, [196].
• Mencius—
  • Attacks on heterodox systems, [147].
  • Conversations with disciples, book of Confucian Canon, [42].
  • Lao Tzŭ, no allusion to, in writings, [147].
  • Quotations from, [84-87], [196].
• Ming dynasty—
  • Emperor, character and end of last Emperor, [117].
  • History, quotations, [136].
  • Overthrow, [118].
  • Senior Classics, illustrated books, [70].
• Mirror of History, by Ssŭ-ma Kuang, [49].
• Mirrors, ancient Chinese and Greek, [132].
• Missionaries, Protestant, in China, [144].
• Monosyllables, Chinese language, incapable of inflection, [10].
• Murder, conviction for, illustrations, [103].
• Music—
  • Book of Music, Confucian Canon, [42].
  • Burning of the Books, music destroyed, [129].
  • Greek characteristics, [129].
• Nestorian Christians in China, [143].
• Netherlands—story of Dutch settlement in China, [137].
• Novels, Chinese, [61].
• Odes, Book of, Confucian Canon, [41]
• • Mirrors mentioned in, [132].
  • Standard of rhyme, [67].
  • Toys of boy and girl babies, [195].
• Official coats, "horse-shoe sleeves," [179].
• Official positions in China—
  • Law experts in offices of judge of criminal cases, [56].
  • Senior Classics, see that title.
  • Value of, [72].
  • Women once admitted to, [198].
  • [See also Government.]
• Olives, Greek and Chinese associations, [128].
• Opposites, China regarded as land of, [119], [210].
• Painting the face, custom of Chinese and Grecian women, [122].
• Pakhoi, opium tax resisted, [95].
• Paper, invention of, effect on style of Chinese writing, [26].
• Pegasus—Chinese "heavenly horse" compared, [133].
• Peking, dialect of, standard Mandarin, [8].
• Penal Code, Chinese, [56], [87].
• Persia—"heavenly horse" in China, [131].
• Philippines, Spanish seizure from China, [136].
• Phonetic basis and indicator, see Language—Written.
• Phraseology concordance, Chinese, [65].
• "Pidgin" English, [17].
• Pigs, tax on, resisted, [93].
• Pills of immortality, concoction and effect of, [107].
• Plays—
• • Editions of, [62].
  • Grecian similarities, [125].
• Poetry—
  • Cambridge collection, [60].
  • Taoist poet, quotations from, [160].
  • Women writers, [60], [197].
• Population, Chinese, vastness of, [3].
• Portrait-painting, Chinese—
  • Encyclopædia topic, [53].
  • Story, [53].
• Prefectures, division of circuits, [76], [83].
• Priest, Buddhist priest anecdote, [138].
• Prince Huai-nan, see Huai-nan.
• Protestant missionaries in China, [144].
• Provincial government—
  • Division of provinces, [76], [78].
  • Governors, [76], [83].
  • Officials, commissioners, etc., [81].
  • Viceroys, [76], [82], [83].
• Puppet-shows, China, alleged origin of, [123].
• Pythagorean and Chinese systems of music, similarity of, [129].
• Quails, fighting, Grecian and Chinese custom, [126].
• Queue—
• • False hair, [180].
  • Tartars, fight against queue, [179].
  • Theories as to origin, [178].
• Readers, professional, Chinese, [61].
• Record in Dark Blood, historical section, Cambridge, [57].
• Relativity, doctrine of, Lao Tzŭ's teachings, [156].
• Religions—
• • Buddhism, see that title.
  • Classification—Three Doctrines, [143], [145].
  • Confucian Canon, see that title.
  • Jews, [144].
  • Lao Tzŭ, see Taoism.
  • Mahommedanism, [143].
  • Manichæans, [144].
  • Nestorian Christians, [143].
  • Protestant missionaries, [144].
  • Roman Catholicism, [144].
  • Taoism, see that title.
  • Zoroastrians, [144].
• Reprints, Chinese—
  • Cambridge collection, [55].
  • Family Library, [55].
• Rhyme, Chinese, [67].
• Riots, Chinese, people's self-government, [97].
• Rip Van Winkle, Chinese, story of, [55].
• Rites, Book of, Confucian Canon, [42].
• Roman Catholicism in China, [144].
• Roman classics, relative values of Chinese and Greek training, [109].
• Romance of Three Kingdoms, novel, [61].
• Salt commissioner, provincial official, [81].
• Sanskrit, introduction of, [110].
• San Ts'ai T'u Hui encyclopædia, [52].
• Seal of office of mandarin, [198].
• Self-government illustrations, [96].
• Self-taxation, see Taxation.
• Senior Classics—
• • Honours of, [72].
  • Illustrated book in Cambridge collection, [70].
• Shopkeepers, women's business ability, [198].
• Smith, Rev. Dr. A., statement as to prejudice against Christianity, [181].
• Social life, knowledge of, necessary to foreigner in China, [181].
• Spanish seizure of islands from China, [136].
• Spectacles, see Eyeglasses.
• Speech, Chinese, see Language.
• Spring and Autumn, Confucian Canon, [41].
• Ssŭ-k'ung T'u, Taoist poet, quotations from, [160].
• Ssŭ-ma Ch'ien—
  • Historical Record, [45].
  • Memoir of Lao Tzŭ, [149].
• Ssŭ-ma Kuang, author of The Mirror of History, [48].
• Statesmen—
  • Chang Ch'ien, mission to Bactria, [130].
  • Compared with men from other countries, [112].
  • Han Yü, great works of, [117].
  • Li Hung-chang, see that title.
  • Wên T'ien-hsiang, influence of Chinese literature on, [113].
• Statutes, present Chinese dynasty, [56].
• Story-tellers in Chinese towns, [61], [123].
• Street etiquette and rights, [183].
• Strikes—tea strike, Hangchow, [95].
• Study of Chinese affairs, see China.
• Suffixes, Chinese language, [21].
• T'ai-p'ing rebels, pamphlets of, [56].
• Taoism—
• • Alchemy, [166].
  • Black art, [186].
  • Borrowing from Buddhists, [172].
  • Cambridge Library, collection of writings, [44].
  • Chuang Tzŭ, writer on Taoism, [148], [154-160], [165], [171].
  • Corruption of the Tao, [171].
  • Decline, [163].
  • Elixir of life, [163].
  • Genuineness of Tao-Tê-Ching, evidences against, [146].
  • Han Fei Tzŭ, writer on Taoism, [148].
  • Huai-nan Tzŭ, writer on Taoism, [149].
  • Immortality, see that title.
  • Inaction doctrine, [152], [156].
  • Last state, [143].
  • Legends of Lao Tzŭ, [145].
  • Philosophy of, [151-163], [182].
  • Poet, quotations from, [160].
  • Relativity doctrine, [156].
  • Struggle with Buddhists, [172].
• Tao-t'ai, intendant of circuit, [76], [83].
• Tao-Té-Ching, evidences against genuineness, [146].
• Tartar generals, provincial governors, [82].
• Taxation—
  • Combination and resistance, [92].
  • Lightness of taxation, [89].
  • New imposts, people's approval necessary before enforcement, [90].
  • Opium tax resisted, [95].
  • Pigs, tax on, resisted, [93].
  • Self-taxation, [84]
    • Illustrations, [92].
    • Likin tax, [89].
  • Tea strike, [95].
• Tea, serving and drinking, [187].
• Tea strike, Hangchow, [95].
• Tenses, Chinese language, [13].
• "Three Doctrines," [143], [145].
• Tones, Chinese language, [20]
  • Arrangement of concordance to phraseology, [66].
• Topographies, Chinese, Cambridge collection, [57].
• University, Columbia, endowment of Chinese chair, [4], [37], [211].
• University of Cambridge, Library, see Library.
• Veils for women, abolition of, [197].
• "Veritable Record," Cambridge collection, [48].
• Viceroys, Chinese, [76], [82], [83].
• Visitors, Chinese etiquette, [186]
• • Invitation to dinner, [188].
  • Left-hand, place of honour, [187].
  • Tea, serving and drinking, [187].
• Vitale, Baron, publication of Chinese nursery rhymes, [206].
• Water-clocks, Chinese and Grecian, [128].
• Watermelon, Chinese term for, Greek origin, [134].
• Wên Tien-hsiang, influence of Chinese literature and training on, [113].
• Western incidents in Chinese literature, [135].
• Widows, Chinese, [201].
• Wine, introduction of grape-wine into China, [131].
• Wine-drinking—
• • Anecdotes, [127].
  • Grecian resemblances, [126].
  • Guest-tea, [187].
• Wives—
  • "Henpecked husbands," [204].
  • Status, etc., [196], [198], [199].
  • [See also Women.]
• Women—
  • Ancestry of ancient Chinese traced through mother, [27].
  • Biographies of Eminent Women, [50].
  • Disregard of, [189].
  • Education, [197].
  • False hair, [180].
  • Foot-binding, see that title.
  • Girls, see that title.
  • Greek similarities, [121].
  • "Henpecked husbands," [204].
  • Official life, [198].
  • Painting the face, custom, [122].
  • Poems by, [60], [197].
  • Privileges not shared by men, [201].
  • Seclusion, [177], [196].
  • Shopkeepers, business ability, [198].
  • Veils, abolition of, [197].
  • Widows, [201].
  • Wives, see that title.
• Written Chinese language, see Language.
• Wuchang bridge incident, [97].
• Yüan Yüan, commentary, Confucian Canon, [43].
• Zebra, picture of, in ancient Chinese book, [59].
• Zoroastrians in China, [144].