Pearl River, [9]
Peking, northern capital of China, [34]
approaches to new foreign quarter fortified, [37]
Byron's lines on Lisbon applied to Peking, [39]
climate and low death-rate, [38]
Empress Dowager's summer residence, [34]
"Forbidden City," [37]
French Cathedral defended by Bishop Favier and marines, [176]
Legation Street, [36]
Prospect or Palatine Hill, [38]
siege of legations, [175]
summer palaces, [34]
Tai-ping expedition against, [159]
Tartar and Chinese cities, [35]
Temples of Agriculture, Heaven and Earth, [35], [36]
Peking Gazette, the, oldest journal in the world, [290]
Philosophers of the Sung period, Cheo, Cheng, Chang, and Chu, [127-128]
Philosophers:
Chu Hi, [128]
Wang Ngan-shi, economist, [128]
Pirates, attacks of, on Mr. Russell and the author, [18]
Rev. Walter Lowrie is drowned by, [18]
Police, reforms in, [218]
Polo, Marco, Mattei, and Nicolo, [132]
sojourn in China, [132]
Port Arthur and Liao-tung, [171], [174], [182], [184], [186], [187], [188], [190], [191], [192]
Ports, five, opened to great Britain at close of the Opium War, [155]