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PDFencourages letters, 84
known as a commentator in the Yih-king, 84
Whales, the river near Hang-chow a trap for, 23
Wheat, produced in all the provinces, 3
Williams, Dr. S. Wells, takes charge of American Board printing press at
Canton, 283
labours, 283
“The Middle Kingdom,” 283
Witte, Count, and Portsmouth treaty, 193
Women in China, considered out of place in attempting to govern, 82
Writing, reform in, 216
new alphabet invented, 217
Wu, Empress, succeeds Kao-tsung and reigns for twenty-one years, 121
Wu Pa, the five dictators, 96
Wu San-kwei, a traitorous Chinese general, makes terms with the
Manchus, 140-141
Wu Ti, Liang emperor, who became a Buddhist monk, 117
Wu-ti, “the five rulers,” 71
Wu-ting-fang, Chinese minister at Washington, and legal reforms, 214
Wu-wang, the martial king, rescues the people from the oppression of the
Shangs, 83
Xavier, St. Francis, arrives at Macao, is not allowed
to land, and dies
on the Island of St. John, 138
Yang, chief supporter of the leader of the Tai-pings,
157-158
Yang Chia Kow, called by foreign sailors “Yankee
Cow,” at the mouth of
the Yellow River, 29
Yang-tse Kiang, possible Tibetan source of, 63
new islands made by, 28
Yan Kien, a Chinese general sets up the Sui dynasty,
117
Yao, type of an unselfish monarch, 73
astronomical observations, 76
passes by son in naming his successor,
73
Yeh, Viceroy, and the Arrow War, 162
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Yellow River, source of, 63
forsakes its old bed, 29
“Yellow ruler, the,” reputed inventor
of letters and the cycle of sixty
years, 72
Yellow Sea, why so called, 28
Yermak, 182
Yu and Li, two bad kings of the house of Chou, 88
Yuen or Mongol dynasty 131-134
Yuen Shi Kai, Viceroy, preeminent in the work of reform,
212
Yungcheng, succeeds Kanghi and reigns fourteen years,
144
Yungloh, emperor of the Ming dynasty, 136
“Thesaurus of,” 136
Yuenkwei, viceregal district of, 15, 52
Yuennan, province of, 52, 53
coal measures and copper mines, 52
hundred tribes of aborigines within its
borders, 52
unhealthful climate, 52
