China under the Empress Dowager - J. O. P. Bland; Sir E. Backhouse

[139] It has remained thus in many districts until now, vast solitudes of ruins being the chief characteristic of a region that, before the rebellion, supported some thirty million inhabitants.

[140] Subsequently Governor of Formosa.

INDEX

Actors, Palace, [86], [87], [492]
Admiralty, vide [Navy]
Adviser to the Government, vide [Prince Kung]; also [Prince Ch’un]
Adviser to the Regency, vide [Prince Ch’un]
Aisin Gioros, [4], [6], [167]
A-Lu-Te, Empress, [118-132-162]
suicide of, [129], [350]
Ancestor worship, [134], [328], [473-4]
Ancestral shrines, [167]
Ancestral tablet, [470], [473-4]
Annals of dynasty, vide [Dynastic]
Annam, [505]
Anti-foreign movement, [230], [305], [334], [336];
also vide [Boxer movement]
An Wei-chun, [171]
Astrologers, [387], [471], [485-6]
Audiences, procedure at, [58], [75], [77], [103], [111], [113], [188], [408], [412], [452]
Banishment, vide [Post-roads]
Baron von Ketteler, [271], [273], [278], [288], [305], [316], [330], [332], [384]
“Benign Countenance,” [53]
Berlin, mission to, [383-386]
Big Sword Society, [255]
Birthday celebrations, [168], [450-1]
Black List, 1900, [104]
Blood brotherhood, [206], [361]
Board of Punishments, [227]
Board of Rites, [190], [192], [197], [207]
Bombardment of Peking, [297], [344]
Book of Odes, quoted, [265]
Boxer chiefs, [281], [323], [331], [363], [369-374]
Boxer movement, [82], [100], [180], [195], [228], [243], [246-250], [260 to 303], [311-12], [364], [440], [512]
British Minister, [215], [228], [241], [503]
British Policy, [214-5], [339]
Brooks, Revd., [255]
Bruce, Sir F., [24]
Burial Ceremonies, [17], [19], [61-2], [136], [149], [465], [470], [475]
Burning of Legations, [263], [364]
Burying Alive, [147], [472]
Caligraphy, Edict re, [195]
Cantonese, lampooners, [84], [225], [491]
reformers, [100], [185], [219], [220], [225], [418]
Capture of Peking, 1860, [17 et seq.]
Carl, Miss, [290], [492]
Censorate, [86], [88], [122], [147], [163], [172], [195], [305], [488], [492], [494], [501], [512]
and eunuchs, [82], [109]
Chang Chih-tung, [140], [220], [278], [353], [398], [429], [483], [501-6]
Chang Yin-huan, [173], [185], [202], [220-1], [228]
Chao, Duke, [6]
Chao Erh-hsün, [159]
Chao Kuang-yin, Emperor, [133]
Chao Shu-ch’iao, [256], [258], [269], [298], [324], [357], [364], [366-9], [370]
Cheng, Prince, vide [Tuan Hua]
Ch’en Lien-fang, Dr., [216-19]
Ch’en Pao-chen, [186], [196]
Ch’en Tu-en, [53]
Chia Ch’ing, Emperor, [247]
Chia Hsun, Empress, vide [A-Lu-Te]
Chief Eunuch, vide [Eunuchs]
Ch’ien Lung, Emperor, [45], [83], [149], [164], [350], [442], [445]
Ch’i Hsiu, [260-1], [264-5], [295], [314], [324], [367], [374]
Chi Lu, Chamberlain, [361], [402], [415]
China’s Foreign Policy, [338]
Chinese Resident in Corea, [171], [201]
Ching Hsin, [252]
Ch’ing, Prince, [99], [104], [256], [259], [271], [278], [334], [342], [372], [374], [384], [438], [447], [450], [456], [473]
Ching Shan, [224], [251-303], [327], [413], [478]
death of, [251]
Ching Yüan-shan, [219]
Chi Shou-ch’eng, [255-6], [260], [272], [286], [291]
Ch’i Ying, Envoy, [12], [502]
Chou Dynasty, [315]
Chou Tsu-p’ei, [41]
Christianity, [105], [248], [260], [268], [313], [336], [392], [461], [505]
Christians massacred, [282], [286], [292], [331], [415]
Chuang, Prince, [270], [273], [282], [286], [357], [365], [370]
Chu Hung-teng, [311]
Ch’ung Ch’i, [118], [350], [351]
Ch’ung Hou, [419], [501-2]
Chung Li, [257]
Ch’un, House of, [5], [158], [164], [446]
Ch’un, Prince (brother of Kuang Hsü), [5], [302], [383], [444], [446], [451], [458], [462]
Ch’un, Prince (the first), [5], [99], [121-2], [125], [130], [143], [158-65], [167], [446]
adviser to Grand Council, [160]
death of, [166]
Clan Imperial, vide [Imperial]
Classical essays, vide [Examinations]
Coast Defences, [100], [328]
“Cobbler’s Wax” Li, vide [Li Lien-ying]
“Cold Palace,” [32], [149]
Colleges, [194], [196], [205], [222], [429], [461], [493]
Concubines, Palace, [9], [107], [162], [209], [225], [231], [300], [408], [429] (also vide under “[Pearl]” and “[Lustrous]”)
Conferences, Palace, [125-6], [297], [457]
Confucian system, [64], [136], [213], [226-7], [236], [245], [307], [328], [363], [488], [512]
Confucius, [83], [469], [484-5]
quoted, [113], [260], [288], [302], [319], [420]
Conger, Mrs., [290], [488]
Conservative Party, [194], [197], [201-10], [221], [229], [235]
Conspiracy of Regents, vide [Tsai Yuan]
Constitutional Government, [106], [221], [425], [431], [438], [441], [450], [461], [468], [498]
Consular Service, British, [339]
Corea, [168], [170], [201], [390]
Council, Grand, vide [Grand]
Coup d’état, [169 et seq.], [201-210], [213], [438], [451], [505], [511]
Court Ceremonies, [58], [75], [130], [153], [168], [178], [206], [208], [212], [218], [355], [412], [450], [462], [492]
Court in exile, [97], [344]
Court of Astronomers, [34], [117], [493]
Court physicians, [217-8], [448], [457]
Court’s return to Peking, [353], [357], [394], [399], [404-11], [486]
Criminal Code, [431]
Czar’s Coronation, [182]
Dalai Lama, [448], [452], [454-5]
Decrees:—
1860: [24], [26], [27], [28], [29]
1861: [34], [42], [44], [45], [46], [54], [60]
1864: [67], [86]
1865: [60], [62]
1866: [89]
1869: [92], [93]
1872: (T’ung Chih’s majority), [117]
1873: (Foreign Ministers’ audiences), [115]
1874: (T’ung Chih’s illness), [120]
1884: (Dismissal of Prince Kung), [154]
1889: (Position of Emperor’s father), [164]
1894: (Tzŭ Hsi’s 60th birthday), [168]
(Re Censor An Wei-chun), [175]
1898: (Death of Prince Kung), [183]
(Chinese versus Manchus), [231]
(Coup d’état), [207], [221]
(K’ang Yu-wei), [204], [226]
(Reform Edicts), [186-7], [196-7], [199]
(Re lawsuits), [240]
(The Boxers charter), [241], [243]
(Tzŭ Hsi’s policy), [237]
(Weng T’ung-ho), [188]
(Yüan Shih-k’ai), [203]
1900: (Heir Apparent), [303]
(Boxers Punished), [364], [367]
(Disowning Boxers), [331]
(Expiatory), [349]
(Flight to Hsi-an), [354]
(Return to Peking), [357]
(Yangtsze Viceroys), [330]
1901: (Conversion to Reform), [419-424], [426]
(Cancels Boxer Edicts), [375]
(Penitential), [376]
1902: (Re Jung Lu), [414]
(Reforms), [416]
1903: (Death of Jung Lu), [437]
1905: (Constitutional Government), [431-2]
1908: (Death of Kuang Hsü), [460]
(Imperial Succession), [462]
(Regency), [465]
(Tzŭ Hsi’s Valedictory), [467-9]
(Valedictory), [461]
Déthève, Dr., [217]
Diplomatic Body, [241], [265], [335], [401], [412-3], [452], [495]
ladies of, [214], [241], [290], [412], [434], [495]
District magistrates, [199], [205], [235], [240], [243], [441]
“Divine Mother,” [240]
Du Chaylard, [268]
Dynastic annals, [338], [437], [477]
Edicts, vide [Decrees]
Educational Reform, [430], [505]
Elephant, Tzŭ Hsi’s, [454]
Elgin, Lord, [12], [24-5]
Emperor of Japan, telegram to, [333], [335], [337]
Emperor of Russia, telegram to, [333], [335]
Emperor’s education, [87], [107], [127], [233]
Empress Consort (Tzŭ An), vide [Tzŭ An]
Empress Dowager, vide [Tzŭ Hsi], and [Yehonala]
Empress Dowager, widow of Kuang Hsü (Lung Yü), [4], [301], [447], [464-5]
Empress Grand Dowager (Tzŭ Hsi), [464]
Empress Mother, [35], [150], [177]
Empress of Kuang Hsü, [163], [177], [209], [301], [346], [447]
Empress of the East, vide [Tzŭ An]
Empress of the West, vide [Tzŭ Hsi]
En Hai, [271], [288], [305]
En Ming, En Ch’u, En Ch’un, En Lin, sons of Ching Shan, [251-303]
Etiquette, vide [Audiences], [Ceremonies, Court], &c.
Eunuchs, place of origin, [85]
all Manchus, [429]
Chief Eunuch An Te-hai, [38], [63], [85], [88], [90 et seq.], [122], [154], [259]
Li Lien-ying, [82], [84-5], [94-5], [97-8], [208], [267], [300], [453], [472]
and Dalai Lama, [448]
and Pearl Concubine, [300]
and the Navy funds, [169], [196]
at Hsi-an, [355], [360]
collecting tribute, [402]
corrupt practices of, [353], [495]
denounced by Censor, [174]
during flight of Court, [341]
hostility to Emperor of, [100], [179], [199]
in disgrace, [102]
power of, [103], [151], [162], [360], [435]
supports Boxers, [258], [263], [279]
Wei Chung, [83]
Decree against, [89]
duties at audiences, [85]
Eunuch Sun, [184], [356]
evil influences of, [81 et seq.], [119], [494]
Memorial denouncing, [107]
under K’ang Hsi, [83]
under Ming dynasty, [81], [152], [466]
European morals, &c., [111], [268]
Ever-victorious army, [66]
Examinations, system of, [180], [187], [190], [192], [235-6], [429], [484]
Extra-territoriality, [430]
Flight of Court (1860), [18], [27]
(1900), [300], [302], [340-62]
Foot-binding, Edict re, [428]
Foreign Office, vide [Waiwupu] and [Tsungli Yamên]
French Cathedral, Peking, destroyed, [276], [293]
Funeral of Hsien-Feng, [38], [61]
Jung Lu, [437]
Tzŭ Hsi, [465], [470-5], [515]
T’ung Chih, [501]
Gendarmerie, Peking, [150], [276]
German Emperor, [384]
German Minister, vide [Baron von Ketteler]
Giers, de, Mr., [336]
Ginseng, [441]
Goddess of Mercy, Tzŭ Hsi as, [455]
Gordon, General, [11], [66], [67], [73]
Government Gazette, vide [Official]
Grand Council, [44], [159], [266], [275], [297], [464]
Gros, Baron, [25]
Han dynasty, [52], [391]
Hanlin academy, [282], [293], [483]
Hanlin diarist (1860), [14 et seq.]
Hart, Sir R., [510]
“Heavenly King,” vide [Hung Hsiu-ch’uan]
Heir Apparent, [253], [255], [257], [274-8], [281], [289], [303-4], [349], [358-9], [360], [381], [451], [457], [511]
deposed, [382]
Hereditary rank, [56]
Hillier, Sir W., [171]
Hills, Eastern, [471]
Honan fu, Court at, [399]
Honorific titles, Tzŭ Hsi’s, [55], [469], [490]
Household, Imperial, vide [Imperial]
House laws, dynastic, [90], [119], [122], [128], [133], [143], [159], [174], [381], [444], [462]
Hsi-an, Court at, [101], [108], [354-5], [358], [492], [496]
Hsien-Feng, Emperor, [2], [8], [11], [467]
at Jehol, [23], [24], [30]
burial, [61], [472]
death of, [35], [85]
eunuchs under, [85]
heir born to, [12]
tomb of, [149]
Hsüan-hua fu, Court at, [342], [346]
Prefect of, [247]
Hsüan-T’ung, Emperor, [444], [459], [462]
Hsü Ching-ch’eng, [269], [281], [291-2], [294], [307-26], [377]
Hsü Shih-ch’ang, [6-7]
Hsü Shih-ch’ing, [221]
Hsü T’ung, [180-1], [253], [257], [263], [270], [302], [324], [366], [511]
Hsü Ying-ku’ei, [190], [197], [202], [207], [232], [246]
Hsü Yung-yi, [296]
Huai-lai, Court at, [340-3]
Huai Ta Pu, [194], [197], [202], [207]
Hui Chang, [230]
Hui Cheng (Tzŭ Hsi’s father), [2]
Hundred Days, the, [213]
Hung Hsiu-ch’uan, [67], [69], [71-3]
“I-cheng-wang,” [56], [60]
I-Ho Yüan, vide [Summer Palace]
Ili, Russians at, [112], [181], [501-3]
Imperial Clan Court, [32], [44], [48], [213]
Imperial Clans, [122], [187], [267], [325], [326], [418], [425], [447], [481]
Imperial Clansmen, [40], [47], [54], [60], [91], [123], [158], [212], [326], [429]
Imperial Commissioner, [370]
Imperial Decrees, vide [Decrees]
Imperial Guards, [38]
Imperial Household, tribute to, [86], [97], [99], [104], [359], [361]
accounts of, [87], [103], [495]
Comptrollers of, [87-8], [121], [151], [251], [259], [457]
eunuchs in, [81 et seq.]
Imperial Succession, vide [Succession]
Imperial Tombs, vide [Tombs]
Incantations of Boxers, [279], [315]
Inspector General of Customs, [170], [510]
Intermarriage, Chinese and Manchus, [428], [491]
International jealousies, [333], [392]
Iron-capped princes, [2], [6], [182]
Ito, Prince, [391], [438]
Jade, Emperor, [258], [270]
Jadot, Monsieur, [407], [410-11]
James, Professor, [272]
Japan, war with, vide [Wars]
Jehol, Court at, [14 et seq.], [27], [439], [484]
Imperial Treasures at, [301]
Su Shun’s Palace at, [45]
Tsai Yüan conspiracy at, [30-40]
Judicial reform, [430], [461]
Jung Lu, [121], [124]
and Eunuch An Te-hai, [85], [104]
and Legations, [224], [266], [285]
and Reformers, [221], [223], [231], [440]
and Tsai Yüan Conspiracy, [32], [37], [40]
and Weng T’ung-ho, [181]
at T’ai-Yüan fu, [350], [352]
audience with Kuang Hsü, [185]
commander-in-chief, [222], [302], [352]
death of, [415]
his corrupt practices, [352]
his daughter, [302], [447], [458]
his wives, [274], [352], [458], [493]
illness of, [404]
in disgrace, [150-1]
intimacy with Yehonala, [8], [225]
opposes Boxers, [195], [224], [246], [260], [266], [440]
relations with Emperor, [295], [352]
with foreigners, [334], [413]
restored, [168]
Tartar General, Hsi-an, [103], [168], [440]
telegram to Yangtsze Viceroys, [277]
Tzŭ Hsi’s adviser, [224], [246], [297], [354], [387], [413]
valedictory memorial, [438-442]
Viceroy of Chihli, [188], [440]
withholds artillery from Boxers, [284], [291]
Kai-Feng, Court at, [104]
K’ang-Hsi, Emperor, [37], [48], [74], [146], [190], [268], [346]
Kang Yi, [178], [195], [241], [256-300], [354], [365]
K’ang Yu-wei, [2], [8], [84], [184]
character of, [192]
flight from Peking, [204]
plot against Tzŭ Hsi, [198], [225], [244], [293], [421], [440], [445], [511]
Kansuh soldiery, [251], [262], [271], [276], [316], [360], [509]
Kashgar, fall of, [509]
Kauffmann, General, [508]
Ketteler, vide [Baron von]
Kiaochao Bay, seizure of, [193], [390]
Ko Pao-hua, [365], [370]
Kotow, [111]
“Kow-hsing,” s.s., [171]
Kuang Hsü, Emperor, minority of, [51], [128], [149]
and eunuchs, [82], [85], [110]
a prisoner, [207], [211]
assumes government, [161], [439]
at Hsi-an fu, [358]
character of, [105], [143]
death of, [128], [443], [460]
education of, [127], [152]
elected by Tzŭ Hsi, [126], [129], [439]
foreign sympathy for, [241]
funeral of, [471], [473]
his brothers, [386], [515]
his concubines, [163]
his consort, [163], [177], [209], [301], [346]
his disposition, [179], [358], [415]
his mother, [166]
majority of, [164]
marriage of, [161]
opposed to Boxers, [269]
personal appearance of, [218], [359]
physical defects, [128]
plots against Tzŭ Hsi, [198], [202]
relations with Chang Chih-tung, [278]
Heir Apparent, [281]
Jung Lu, [352]
Pearl Concubine, [300]
Reformers, [181], [424]
proposed deposition of, [252], [257], [274]
relations with Tzŭ Hsi, [176], [438], [449]
sickness of, [216], [383], [443-4], [448], [459]
succession to, [462]
Kuanshih, Court at, [340]
Kuan Wen, [68]
Kuei Ching, [119], [121]
Kuei Hsiang, Duke, [6], [161], [209], [415]
Kuei Liang, [24-5], [41]
Kuei Pao, [120]
Kung, Duke, [357]
Kung, Prince (candidate for Throne, 1908), [5], [458]
Kung, Prince (son of Tao-Kuang), [20], [126], [178]
Adviser to the Government, [56], [154]
assists Yehonala against Tsai Yuan, [33 et seq.]
at Jehol, [32]
death of, [183]
degraded, [59], [155]
his daughter, Princess Imperial, [56], [95]
in retirement, [157]
plenipotentiary, [27-29]
quarrels with Tzŭ Hsi, [95], [149], [488]
re-instated, [61], [63]
K’un Ming Lake, [178], [204]
Lake Palace, [206]
Lan-chou fu, [372], [396], [509]
Lan, Duke, vide [Tsai Lan]
Lawsuits, edict re, [239]
Legation Guards, [256], [313], [332]
Legations at Peking, [110], [214], [263], [271 et seq.], [298], [433]
Liang Ch’i-ch’ao, [196], [208], [327], [505]
Liao Shou-heng, [178], [185]
Li Ching-fang, [173]
Lien Yuan, [296]
Li Hsiu-ch’eng, [69], [71-73]
Li Hung-chang, [76-7], [99], [100], [123], [170], [172], [176], [192], [201], [239], [336], [384], [387-9], [434], [501], [505]
death of, [399]
Li Hung-tsao, [156], [180], [193]
Li Lien-ying, vide [Eunuchs]
Lin Hsü, Reformer, [202], [205]
Li Ping-heng, [102], [246], [286], [292], [293-4], [297], [343], [348], [366], [505]
Li, Prince, [157], [178], [262], [271], [275], [292]
Li Shan, [269], [285], [296]
Literati, [213], [235], [398], [418], [425], [492], [502]
Li Tuan-fen, [202], [228-9]
Liu Kuang-ti, [202]
Liu K’un-yi, Viceroy, [220], [233], [274-5], [279], [327], [334], [395]
Li Wan-ts’ai, [69]
Lu Ch’uan-lin, [354], [358-9], [458]
Lü, Empress, [52]
Lü Hai-huan, [385]
Lung Yü, Empress, [150], [177], [301], [464-5]
“Lustrous” Concubine, [163], [408], [452]
Magic arts of Boxers, [247], [261], [279]
Mahomedan rebellion, [74], [117], [321], [503], [507-509]
Ma Hsin-yi, [78]
Manchu Field Force, [131], [167], [305]
Clansmen, [4], [268]
soldiery, [182], [228], [271]
Manchurian provinces, [170], [176], [396], [490], [503], [507]
Manchus versus Chinese, [166], [230], [270], [421], [427], [477]
Masquerades, vide [Palace Theatricals]
Mausolea, vide [Tombs]
Ma Yu-k’un, General, [302], [343]
Memorials:—
An Wei-chun, [172]
Censorate, [271]
Hsü Ying-ku’ei, [192]
Hui Chang, [230]
Jung Lu, [350], [436], [438-42]
Li Hung-chang, [389]
Li Tuan-fen, [229]
Prince Ch’un, [165], [384]
Re Eunuchs, [86], [88], [107]
Southern Viceroys, [394-5]
Tseng Quo-fan, [72], [74]
Wu K’o-tu, [110 et seq.], [142-7]
Yüan Ch’ang and Hsü Ching-ch’eng, [292-3], [307-26]
Yü Lu, Viceroy, [264]
Mencius, quoted, [111], [163], [187], [273], [284], [287-8], [514]
Military reorganisation, [194], [228], [386]
Ming dynasty, [144], [186], [246], [253], [312], [428], [431], [466]
Mining Bureau, Peking, [196]
Ministers, foreign, vide [Diplomatic Body]
Missionaries, [78], [241], [255], [287], [292], [318], [329], [415], [505], [513]
Mission to Berlin, [383-386]
abroad (1905), [431]
Morrison, Dr., vide “[Times]”
Muyanga, [2], [9]
Nanking re-captured, [48], [66 et seq.]
Na T’ung, [31], [264-5], [285], [296]
Navy funds, [98]
naval reorganisation, [163], [167], [196], [386], [503]
Ning Shou Palace, [301], [403], [496]
Niuhulu, [7], [10]
North and South factions, [180 et seq.]
Nurhachu, [1], [4], [5], [371], [429]
“Ocean Terrace,” [207], [455], [460]
Official Gazettes, [196], [204], [222]
Old Buddha, vide [Tzŭ Hsi], also [Yehonala]
Opium smoking (Tzŭ Hsi), [411], [496], [504]
abolition of, [430], [497], [509]
Palace eunuchs, vide [Eunuchs]
orgies, [90], [120]
politics, [4], [184], [231], [353]
Theatricals, [87], [88], [256], [356], [400], [454-5]
Palace harem, [9], [162], [408], [429]
P’an Tsu-yin, [180]
Pao-Ting Fu, Court at, [405]
Pao Yun, [147], [156]
Parkes (Sir), Harry, [16], [21], [271]
Peace negotiations, [342], [356], [381], [400]
Peace protocol, [357], [364], [376], [383], [398], [401], [478]
Pearl Concubine, [163], [209], [300], [403]
Peking, capture of (1860), [14], [22]
bombardment (1900), [297]
Peking University, [187], [194]
P’eng Yu-lin, [68]
Penitential Decree, [376]
Mission, [384-6]
Phœnix flag, [92]
“P’i Hsiao,” Li, vide [Li Lien-ying (under eunuchs)]
Plot against Tzŭ Hsi, [225]
Po Ch’un, [31]
Police, Peking, [6], [512]
Port Arthur, [99]
Portrait of Tzŭ Hsi, [290], [483]
Portsmouth Treaty, [506]
Post-roads, banishment to, [176], [209], [228]
Press Bureau, Shanghai, [204], [511]
Press, native, [109], [196], [229], [433], [477], [491]
foreign, [433], [448]
Princess Imperial, [178], [262], [493]
Privy Purse, [40], [45], [98], [162], [353], [355], [495]
P’u Chün, vide [Heir Apparent]
P’u Lun, Prince, [5], [122-3], [125], [300], [342], [446-7], [458-9]
P’u T’ung, Prince, [361]
P’u Yi (Emperor Hsuan T’ung), [444], [459], [462]
Railway journey, Court’s, [401], [404-11], [414]
Reactionaries, vide [Conservatives]
Rebellion, vide [Taiping], [Mahomedan], &c.
Red Girdles, vide [Aisin Gioros]
Reform Decrees, [185-200]
Repeal of, [209], [222]
Reform Movement, [108], [169], [190-215], [220], [230], [418], [424], [430], [441], [469]
Regency, Joint of Empresses Dowager, [4], [44], [51 et seq.], [65], [94], [117], [118], [121], [127], [468]
Regency of Tsai Yuan, [30 et seq.], [42], [439]
Regency of Tzŭ Hsi, [148 et seq.], [180]
Regent, Prince Ch’un (1908), [5], [447], [458-9], [462], [473]
Relief of Legations, [298], [334]
Republic, Chinese, [245]
Revolutionary Movement, [194], [227], [237], [245], [249], [457]
Rewards for killing Europeans, [100], [271], [276], [281], [285], [331], [365]
Russian Policy, [23], [82], [171], [176], [181], [336], [396], [434], [502-3]
Russians at Ili, [112], [181], [501-3]
Sakota, [9], [61]
Schools, vide [Colleges]
Scrolls, honorific, &c., [372-3], [451], [506]
Seal, Imperial, [33], [35], [40], [42]
Seng-Ko-Lin Ch’in, Prince, [15], [20], [21], [25], [28]
Seymour, Admiral, [332]
Shansi, Court in, [346]
Yu Hsien, Governor of, [373]
Shao Yu-lien, [173]
Shen Chin, Reformer, [490]
Sheng Hsüan-huai, [407]
Sheng Pao, General, [20], [391], [484]
Shensi, famine in, [105], [416]
Rebellion in, [117]
Shih Hsü, [458]
Shimonoseki Treaty, [391]
Shun-Chih, Emperor, [37], [83], [133], [146]
Siege of Nanking, [68-9], [71]
Su-Chou fu, [507]
Silkworms, God of, [206]
Small-pox, [120]
Southern provinces and Reform, [169], [185], [219], [229], [253], [418], [490]
Southern Viceroys, [277], [329], [359], [394-5], [506]
“Spring and Autumn” Classic, [288], [318], [514]
Squeezing by officials, [495], [510]
Students, [178], [430], [457]
Succession, Imperial, [5], [115], [119], [122], [128], [129], [132], [134], [141], [304], [381], [444], [462], [487]
Sugiyama, [262]
Suicide, patriotic, [134]
Summer Palace, burnt by Allies, [20], [42], [389]
rebuilding of, [99], [128], [168], [356], [493]
Tzŭ Hsi’s life at, [198], [301], [451]
Sun Chia-nai, [253], [358], [510-12]
Sung Ch’ing, General, [350]
Sung dynasty, [133], [143], [190], [236], [391]
Sung, Eunuch, [300]
Sung Po-lu, Censor, [190], [195], [208]
Sung Yu-lien, [204]
Sun Yat-sen, Dr., [227]
Sun Yu-wen, [157]
Su Shun, usurping Regent, [30 et seq.], [48], [156], [496]
Ta-A-Ko, vide [Heir Apparent]
Ta Chi, Concubine, [225]
Taiping rebellion, [11], [37], [48], [64-80], [276], [321], [467], [485], [492], [513]
Tai-Tsung, Empress, [37]
T’ai-Yüan fu, Court at, [348], [496]
Taku Forts, [264], [323], [327], [333]
T’an Chung-lin, Viceroy, [245]
T’ang dynasty, [141], [216], [347]
Tang Shao-yi, [82], [496]
T’an Su-t’ung, Reformer, [202], [245]
T’an Ting-hsiang, Viceroy, [24]
Tao-Kuang, Emperor, [8], [122], [184], [251], [291], [458]
his widow, [11]
T’ao Mo, Viceroy, [107-8]
Taxation, system of, [441]
Temple of Heaven, [445]
“The Chinese Crisis from Within,” [2], [477]
Tientsin, fighting at, [282], [289], [290], [325]
Tientsin massacre, [76-7]
Tien Ts’ung, Emperor, [1]
Times correspondent, Peking, [82], [446], [488]
Times, The, quoted, [216], [219], [389], [404-11], [471-75], [495], [501]
Ting, Admiral, [99]
Ting Pao-chen, [91-3]
T’ing Yung, [247]
Tombs, Imperial, [150], [471], [473], [487]
Hsien-Feng’s, [61], [149]
T’ung-Chih’s, [136]
Tzŭ Hsi’s, [456]
Tongking, [154], [166]
Train-bands, [242-3], [248], [253]
Transvaal war, [289]
Treasure in Palace, [301], [347], [403]
Treaties, Commercial, [111], [383]
Treaty of Livadia, [502-3]
of Portsmouth, [506]
of Shimonoseki, [391]
of Tientsin, [23], [114]
Trial of Reformers, [220]
Tribute, provincial, [97], [104], [359], [361], [398], [402], [452], [496]
Troops, Chihli, [75], [78], [182], [197]
Tsai Ch’u, Prince, [213]
Tsai Feng, vide [Prince Ch’un]
Tsai Lan, Duke, [100], [251-2], [261-3], [270], [272], [292], [294], [360], [364]
Tsai Lien, “Beileh,” [252], [282]
Tsai Tsê, Duke, [431]
Tsai Tun, Duke, [49]
Tsai Ying, “Beileh,” [252], [282]
Tsai Yüan, Prince, [21], [27], [30]
Chief Regent, [36]
conspiracy of, [3], [30 et seq.], [212], [492]
death of, [47]
Ts’en Ch’un-hsüan, [101], [347-8], [355], [359], [360], [370]
Tseng Kuo-ch’uan, [68]
Tseng Kuo-fan, Viceroy, [11], [28], [37], [64], [80], [223], [483], [492], [502], [507]
Tseng, Marquis, [64], [79], [99]
Tseng Tzu, [146]
Tso Tsung-t’ang, [64], [138], [140], [483], [503], [507-510]
Tsungli Yamên, [42], [60], [190], [278], [334]
Tuan Fang, [4], [119], [287], [454], [465], [512], [515]
Tuan Hua, Prince, [21], [30 et seq.], [49], [439]
Tuan, Prince (Boxer), [100], [224], [251-303], [364]
his wife, [343]
in banishment, [365]
relations with Tzŭ Hsi, [273], [283], [291], [343]
son of, Heir Apparent, [253], [303-4]
Tu Mu, [146]
T’ung-Chih, Emperor, [35], [52], [54], [84], [115], [119], [467], [487]
death of, [121], [439]
funeral and burial of, [135], [138]
marries A-Lu-Te, [118], [494]
succession to, [130], [303], [382], [458], [461-2], [487]
unborn heir of, [122]
Tung Fu-hsiang, General, [261-2], [272], [281], [284-5], [288], [316], [323], [350], [362], [366], [509]
T’ung Wen College, [493]
T’ung Yŭan-ch’un, Censor, [38], [43]
Tun, Prince, [2], [131], [251]
Turkestan, [221], [229], [365], [502]
Tzŭ An (Empress Dowager, of the East), [35], [55], [75], [92], [94], [118], [121], [148-9]
and A-Lu-Te, [121]
and Prince Kung, [93]
Co-Regent with Tzŭ Hsi, [44], [475]
death of, [152]
tomb of, [472], [487]
valedictory decree, [152]
Tzŭ Hsi, Empress Dowager, (see also [Yehonala])
appoints Kuang Hsü’s successor, [252], [257], [382]
burial and tomb of, [150], [470-5], [515]
charm of manner, [215], [478], [497]
compared with Napoleon, [486]
compared with Queen Elizabeth, [160], [166], [481], [498]
contemplates suicide, [297]
courage, [285], [487], [488]
death of, [464-7], [498]
despotic nature, [57], [184]
diet and habits, [356], [411], [496]
Empress Dowager and Co-Regent, [35], [44], [51 et seq.]
extravagance, [189], [198], [228], [494]
feminine vanity, [496]
fits of rage, [94], [259], [265], [281], [289], [294], [300], [480], [489], [497]
flies from Peking, [296-7], [340 et seq.]
fond of painting, [259], [285]
gentleness, [53], [239], [259], [480]
her eunuchs, [81 et seq.], [90], [95-6], [198], [267], [289], [300]
her favourites, [91], [96], [102], [293], [364], [483]
her private fortune, [81], [301], [495]
her Privy Purse, [40], [45], [98], [162], [301], [398], [434]
her sisters, [11], [123], [126], [179]
impartiality, [231], [484]
inconsistency, [257]
indecision, [260], [328], [387]
in retirement, [161]
kindness of heart, [282], [286], [358], [478], [481], [489]
last words, [466]
life at summer palace, [157], [161-2], [198], [288]
love of literature, [492-3]
love of theatre, [88], [91], [256], [259], [356], [400], [454-5], [492]
names and titles of, [13], [55], [469], [490]
opium smoking, [411], [496]
parentage, childhood and education, [2], [7], [8-9]
penitent, [337], [383], [389], [392], [416-7], [445]
personal appearance, [359]
policy towards Manchus, [231]
political activity, [239], [244]
prestige of 469, [488]
profligacy of Court, [84], [189], [203], [225], [244], [481]
quarrels with Co-Regent, [94], [148-9]
rebukes the Censors, [166]
receives wives of foreign Ministers, [214], [290], [401], [412], [434], [495]
reform policy, [375], [389], [394], [416], [420], [425]
relations with Boxers, [250-300], [358], [364], [419]
relations with Jung Lu, vide [Jung Lu]
relations with Kuang Hsü, [176], [438], [449]
relations with Legations, [291], [328], [401]
relations with Prince Kung, [57 et seq.], [91 et seq.]
relations with Prince Tuan, [278], [283], [291], [328], [343]
seventieth birthday, [227]
sickness of, [443], [455-6]
sixtieth birthday, [167], [510]
statecraft, [52], [237], [327]
superstitious nature, [65], [279], [387], [409], [456], [481], [485], [487]
thrifty instincts, [45], [105], [405], [434], [481], [495]
Tsai Yuan conspiracy, [30 et seq.]
vindictiveness, [44], [243], [305], [490]
violates succession laws, [43], [126], [132], [445], [487]
woman of moods, [62], [259]
Vernacular Press, vide [Press]
Victoria, Queen, [333], [337], [448], [492]
Wang Chao, Reformer, [197], [232], [449]
Wang Wen-shao, [194], [247], [278], [298], [340], [342], [354], [402]
Wan Li, Emperor, [1]
War, with England and France (1860), [14 et seq.]
of Boxers, [266]
Russo-Japanese, [506]
with France, [154], [166], [505]
with Japan, [98], [157], [167-8], [170], [180], [249], [510]
Wei Chung, Eunuch, [83]
Weihaiwei, [99], [390]
“Wen Ching,” [2], [477], [479]
Weng T’ung-ho, [151], [156-7], [178 et seq.], [233-5], [505], [510]
Wen Hsi, [120]
Wen Lien, [282], [289], [298], [301]
Wen T’i, Censor, [194], [400]
Western learning, [187], [191], [199]
White Lily sect, [247], [311], [321]
Winter Palace, [198], [260]
Women, in the Palace, [232]
not allowed with army, [485]
not allowed with Imperial cortège, [45]
rulers, [52], [466]
Wu, Empress, [52], [189], [270], [472]
Wu K’o-tu, [110 et seq.], [132 et seq.], [445], [461], [506]
suicide of, [135], [137]
Wu San-kuei, [74]
Wu Ta-ch’eng, [163], [165]
Wu-T’ai shan, [350]
Yakoub Beg, [509]
Yang Ju, [330]
Yang Jui, [202], [220], [225]
Yangkunu, Prince, [1]
Yang Shen-hsiu, [190], [195]
Yangtsze provinces, [78], [328]
under Taipings, [67]
Viceroys, vide [Southern]
Yehonala Clan, [2-4], [122], [158], [163], [166], [213], [465], [515]
Yehonala, Concubine Imperial, [1 to 13 et seq.], [26-7] (vide [Tzŭ Hsi])
her sisters, [11], [123], [126]
Yeh, Viceroy, [12], [24]
Yellow Emperor, [145]
Yellow Girdles, vide [Aisin Gioros]
Yellow River, [163], [238], [397], [400], [509]
Yellow Sedan-chair, [164]
paper decrees, [243]
Turban sect, [314]
“Yi” Concubine, (vide [Yehonala]), [17], [31]
Yin Chang, [384-5]
Ying Nien, [366-7], [372]
Ying Tsung, Emperor, [125]
Yi, Prince, vide [Tsai Yuan], [27], [48]
“Young China,” [178], [418], [433], [476], [491]
Yüan Ch’ang, [269], [270], [273], [281], [292], [294], [307-26], [377]
Yüan Dynasty, [314]
Yüan Shih-k’ai, [82], [171], [201], [203 et seq.], [311], [334], [400], [402], [410], [429], [451], [459], [460]
Yu-Ch’uan pu (Ministry of Communications), [430]
Yü Hsien, [252], [254], [260], [273], [287], [291], [311], [323], [348-9], [365], [372]
Yü Lu, Viceroy, [195], [257], [264], [282], [292], [297], [312], [323], [343]
Yünnan, Rebellion in, [117]

Transcriber’s Note: An entry for “Waiwupu” was omitted from the Index, but if it had been included, it might have referred you to pages [339] and [482].

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