Kao-tsung, son of Tai-tsung, raises Wu, one of his father's concubines, to the rank of empress, [121]
Ketteler, Baron von, killed during siege in Peking, [176]
Kiachta, a double town in Manchuria, [58]
Kiak'ing, succeeds on the abdication of his father, Kienlung, [144]
a weak and dissolute monarch, [145]
Kiangsu province, [25]-[29]
derivation of name, [25]
Kiao-Chao (Kiau-Chau), port occupied by Germans, [30], [165]
Kiayi, an exiled statesman, dates a poem from Changsha, [110]
Kié, last king of the Hia dynasty, his excesses, [80]
Kien Lung, emperor poet, lines inscribed by him on rock at Patachu, [35]
abdicates, after a reign of sixty years, for the reason that he did not wish to reign longer than his grandfather, [144]
adds Turkestan to the empire, [144]
dynasty reaches the acme of splendour in his reign, [144]
Kin Tartars, obtain possession of Peking, and push their way to K'ai-fung-fu, the Emperor retiring to Nanking, [129]