mother of great rivers, 63
  polyandry prevalent, 63
Tieliang, a Manchu, one of two ministers appointed to take charge of the
  entire customs service, 208
Tien and Shang-ti, question among Catholics concerning the
  terms, 143
Tien Chu, substitution of, for Shang-ti repulsive to pious
  Chinese, 144
Tien Ho, “River of Heaven,” Chinese term for the Milky Way, 63
Tien-hwang, Ti-hwang, and Jin-hwang, three mythical rulers who reigned
  eighteen thousand years each, 71
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Tiensheng, Chinese name for province of Yuennan 52
Tientsin, province of Chihli, rises anew from its half-ruined condition, 33
  ranks as third of treaty ports, 34
  treaties of, 166
Ti-hwang, Jin-hwang, and Tien-hwang, three mythical rulers, 71
Togo, Admiral, in Russo-Japanese War, 184, 185, 188, 191, 192
Tongking, French left in possession of, 170
Translators, corps of, Dr. John Fryer’s prominent connection with, 288
Tsao Tsao founds the state of Wei, 112
Tsai Lun, inventor of paper 116
Ts’ang-Kie, the Cadmus of China, author of its written characters, 77
Ts’in dynasty, Yin Cheng brings the whole country under his sway and
    assumes title of Shi-Hwang-ti “Emperor First,” 101
  annals of, 101-104
  builds Great Wall, 101
  lasts for a century and a half, 116
Ts’in, Prince of, offers fifteen cities for a kohinoor, 98
Tsinan-fu, railway from the sea to, built by the Germans, 30
Tsin-shi, “Literary Doctor,” degree of, 123
Tsungming, Island of, formed by the waters of the Yang-tse Kiang, 28
  and Tunking coupled in popular proverb, 28
Tsushima, Battle of, 191-192
Tuan Fang, governor of Hupeh, 242-243
  favourable specimen of a Manchu, 276
Tuan, Prince, father of the heir apparent, 174
Tufu, poet of the T’ang dynasty, 119
Tung-chi, Emperor, death of, 273
Tung-chou-kiun, last monarch of the Chou dynasty, 99
Turkestan, 3, 61
  majority of the inhabitants Mohammedans, 61
  most of the khanates absorbed by Russia, 61

Union Medical College, Peking, 285
Urga, Mongolia, a shrine for pilgrimage, 58
Uriu, Admiral, in Russo-Japanese War, 184

Verbiest, the Jesuit, made president of Board of Astronomy, 143

Wall, Great, see Great Wall Wang Chao, invents new alphabet, 217
Ward, Frederick G., the American, and the Tai-ping rebellion, 160
Ward, Hon. J. E., American minister, proceeds to Peking by land, 167
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  declines to kneel to Emperor, 168
Wei, one of the Nan-peh Chao, 116
Weihien, in Shantung, destined to become a railway centre, 30
Weihwei-fu, city on the border of Chihli and Honan, 41
Wensiang, success of Prince Kung’s administration largely due to him, 277
  contests with Tungsuin in extemporaneous verse, 277
Wen-ti, “patron of letters,” a ruler of the house of Han, 107