T’ai-kia, successor of Shang-tang, 80
Tai-ping Rebellion, the, a result of the Opium War, 156
  details of, 157-162
Tai-pings, the, try to establish a new empire, the Tai-ping
    Tien-kwoh, 158
  commonly called “Chang-mao,” long-haired rebels, owing to their rejection
    of the tonsure and cue, 161
  defeated by Gordon, 161
  descend into the plains of Hunan, pillage three cities, and capture
    Nanking, massacring its garrison of 25,000 Manchus, 158-159
  go into winter quarters, and, dividing their forces, are cut off in
    detail, 159
  hold Nanking for ten years, 159
  loose morals and travesty of sacred things horrify Christian world, 161
  missionaries attracted by their profession of Christianity, 160
  queer titles adopted by, 161
  sympathy for their cause by Consul Meadows, 159
  unsuccessfully attempt to drive the Manchus from Peking, 159
Tai-tsung, second emperor of the T’ang dynasty, 120
Taiyuan-fu, missionaries murdered at by the governor, 180
Ta-Ki, a wicked woman by whom Chou-sin is said to have been led into his
  evil courses, 81
Ta Kiang, “Great River,” the Chinese name for the Yang-tse Kiang, 28
Taku, at the mouth of the Peiho, 33
  capture of forts by British and French, repulse of allied forces in
  following year, 33
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Tamerlane, Mongolian origin of, 61
  born in Turkestan, 61
Tanao, a minister of Hwang-ti, author of the cycle of sixty, 77
T’ang dynasty, founded by Li Yuen, 118
  an Augustan age, 119
  annals, 119-125
Tang Shao-yi, a Chinese, one of two ministers appointed to take charge of
  the entire customs service, 208
Tao Kwang, Emperor, resolves to put a stop to opium traffic, 152
Tartars, encroach on the Flowery Land, 117
  suspicious of other foreigners, 151
Tartary, Grand Khan of, 111
Tatnall, Commodore, his kind action at Taku, 167
Ta-ts’ing dynasty, the, its annals, 140-145
Ta-yue, or Yu the Great, early emperor, subdues the waters of a deluge, 75
  casts 9 brazen tripods, 79
  departs from practice of his predecessors and leaves throne to his
  son, 76
  devotes nine years to the dredging and diking of rivers, 75
  his acts and reign, 78-79
  monuments commemorating his labours, 75
Telegraph and telephone, introduction of, 204-205
Temples of Heaven, Earth and Agriculture, 36
Teng-chow College, founded by Dr. C. W. Mateer, 285
Tenney, Dr., and the University of Tientsin, 213
Text-books, prepared by missionaries—­Edkins, Martin, Muirhead, Williamson
  and Wylie, 287-288
Theatre, the Chinese, 114
Three Kingdoms, the, states of Wei, Wu and Shuh, 112
  Lo Kwan-chung, author of a historical novel, 113
Tibet, the land of the Grand Lama, 62
  called by the Chinese “the roof of the world,” 63
  Chinese influence in is nearly nil, 62
  explored by Huc and Gabet, 63