"Drinking Alone by Moonlight," poem by Lipai, [120]
Eclectic Commission, the, [197-198]
Educational reforms, [210]
the Imperial University, [210]
Elgin, Lord, and the Tai-pings, [161], [166]
Elliott, Captain Charles, and the Opium War, [154]
Empress Dowager, and the Boxer War, [172-174], [179-180]
celebrates her seventieth birthday with great pomp, [274]
convert to the policy of progress, [197]
coup d'état, [272]
full name, [276]
parentage, [271]
personal description of, [275]
reactionary clique and, [174]
type of the Manchu woman, [276]
England takes lease of Wei-hai-wei, [174]
Examinations, system of civil service, instituted by the Hans, [109]
continued for twelve centuries, [121]
details of, [122-124]
developed under the T'angs, [121]
reforms in, [213]
Exclusion laws, the, Chinese resentment of, [253]
most feasible way to deal with, [255]
President Roosevelt on, [251]