Food habits, 54-5, 155

Foreign relations, 84
  (see Diplomacy, Treaty, Tribute, War)

Forests, 26

Formosa (T’aiwan), 152, 267, 276, 277, 295, 296, 323 ff.

France, 287, 295, 296, 313, 317

Frontier, concept of, 38

Frugality, 58

Fu Chien, ruler, 126 ff., 130, 131, 136, 139, 157-8

Fu-lan-chi (Franks), 263

Fu-lin, Manchu ruler, 269

Fu-yue, country, 141

Fukien, province, 167, 228, 237, 248, 249, 250, 251, 276

Galdan, leader, 277

Gandhara, country, 146

Gardens, 154

Geisha (see Courtesans), 217

Genealogy, 52, 167, 196

Genghiz Khan, ruler, 225, 230, 241

Gentry (Upper class), 44, 78, 80, 101, 108, 133, 138, 143, 144, 166,
  173, 174, 196, 197, 203, 209, 210, 214, 236, 239, 252 ff., 257, 268,
  272, 297, 303-4, 307;
  colonial gentry, 163;
  definition of gentry, 72;
  gentry state, 71 ff.,
  southern gentry, 153

Germany, 296, 311, 312, 317

Goek Turks, 149 ff.

Governors, role of, 184 ff.

Grain
  (see Millet, Rice, Wheat)

Granaries, 216, 290

Great Britain, 285, 293, 294, 295, 310
  (see England)

Great Leap Forward, 331

Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 333

Great Wall, 57

Greeks, 59, 60

Guilds, 58, 197

Hakka, ethnic group, 228, 289, 323

Hami, city state, 245

Han, dynasty, 71 ff., 122;
  Later Han dynasty, 206

Han Fei Tzu, philosopher, 59

Han T’o-wei, politician, 226-7

Han Yue, philosopher, 182, 217, 218

Hankow (Han-k’ou), city, 38, 156, 162, 251, 290, 314

Hangchow (Hang-chou), city, 38, 225, 228

Heaven, 42, 81
  (see Shang Ti, T’ien)

Hermits, 46 ff.
  (see Monks, Sages)

Hinayana, religion, 135

Historians, 2

Histories, dynastic, 2, 242;
  falsification
  of histories, 43, 52, 93;
  Historiography, 43, 103-4
Hitler, Adolf, dictator, 317, 319

Hittites, ethnic group, 25

Ho Ch’eng-t’ien, scholar, 255

Ho-lien P’o-p’o, ruler, 139, 140, 159, 225

Ho Ti, Han ruler, 99

hong, association, 286

Hong Kong, colony, 286, 319, 325

Hopei, province, 296

Horse, 11, 90, 186, 223, 237;
  horse chariot, 25;
  horse riding, 53;
  horse trade, 63

Hospitals, 216

Hou Ching, ruler, 161-2

Houses, 19, 33
  (see Adobe)

Hsi-hsia, kingdom, 214, 221, 223, 224 ff., 231

Hsi-k’ang, Tibet, 310

Hsia, dynasty, 17-18, 21, 25;
  Hunnic Hsia dynasty, 139
  (see Hsi-hsia)