Bamboo tablets, writings of Confucius engraved on, 106
Battle of the Sea of Japan, 191-192
Bell-tower, boy’s soul supposed to be hovering in, 21
Black-haired race, Chinese style themselves the, 151
Bowring, Sir John, Governor of Hong Kong, and the Arrow case,
  162-163
Boxer War, the, 172-180
  a Boxer manifesto, 175
Boycott, the, 247, 252, 253, 259
Bridges, 16, 41, 42
Bridgman, Dr., pioneer missionary to China, 282
  founds the Chinese Repository, 282
Buddhism, introduction of, into China, 95
  “Apotheosis of Mercy,” a legend of Northern Buddhism, 108
  number of Buddhist monasteries, 108
  rooted in the minds of the illiterate, 108
Burden, Bishop, of the English Church Mission.  Hang-chow, 23
Burlingame, Hon. Anson, U. S. Minister to China, 212

Cambalu, Mongol name for Peking, 59
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Camoeens, tomb of, at Macao, 9
Canton, the most populous city of the Empire, 9-12
  American trade suffers most in Canton from boycott of 1905, 13
  averts bombardment by payment of $6,000,000 ransom, 154
  Christian college, 10
  cock-fighting the popular amusement, 10
  crowds of beggars, 12
  excellence of tea and silk produced in the vicinity, 13
  “flower-boats,” 9
  historical enigma contests, 11
  narrowness of streets, 12
  passion for gambling, 11
Canton (Kwangtung), province of, 7-13
  Viceroy of, has also Kwangsi under his jurisdiction, 13
Caravan Song, 61
Chang Chien, legend of, 63
Chang-fi, rescues son of Liu Pi from burning palace, 114
Chang Tien-shi, arch-magician of Taoism, 109
Chang Chi-tung, Viceroy of Hukwang, his life and public career, 219-241
  first to start the Emperor on the path of reform 213
  case of Chunghau, 223-224
  his commercial developments at Wuchang, 231
  official interviews with, 238-241
Chang Yee, an able diplomatist of the Chou period, 99
Chao, Prince of, is offered fifteen cities for a Kohinoor belonging to
  him, 98
Chau-siang subjugates Tung-chou-Kiun, last monarch of the Chou dynasty, 99
Chefoo (Chifu), port in Shantung province, 32
Chehkiang, province of, smallest of the eighteen provinces, 17-24
Cheng-wang, “the completer,” a ruler of the Chou dynasty, 86-87
  his successors, 87-88
Chentung, Liang, Sir, interview with Dr. Martin with reference to the
  Exclusion Laws and the boycott, 252
Chin, one of the Nan-peh Chao, 117
China, probable derivation of name, 101
  agency of missionaries in diffusing secular knowledge in, 281-291
  American exclusion laws, 253
  anti-opium edict, 304-305
  boycott, 247, 252, 253, 259
  condition after five wars, 181
  displays of barbarity during the Boxer War, 180
  effect of her defeat by Japan, 171
  effects of Russo-Japanese War, 193
  eighteen provinces, 6
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  five grand divisions, 3
  Grand Canal, 31