Romance of Three Kingdoms, novel, 61-62.

  Salt commissioner, provincial official, 81.

  Sanskrit, introduction of, 110.

  San Ts’ai T’u Hui encyclopaedia, 52-53.

  Seal of office of mandarin, 198-199.

  Self-government illustrations, 96-106.

  Self-taxation, see Taxation.

  Senior Classics—­
    Honours of, 72. 
    Illustrated book in Cambridge collection, 70-71.

  Shopkeepers, women’s business ability, 198.

  Smith, Rev. Dr. A., statement as to prejudice against Christianity,
    181.

  Social life, knowledge of, necessary to foreigner in China, 181-182.

  Spanish seizure of islands from China, 136.

  Spectacles, see Eyeglasses.

  Speech, Chinese, see Language.

  Spring and Autumn, Confucian Canon, 41.

  Ssu-k’ung T’u, Taoist poet, quotations from, 160-163.

  Ssu-ma Ch’ien—­
    Historical Record, 45-47. 
    Memoir of Lao Tzu, 149.

  Ssu-ma Kuang, author of The Mirror of History, 48-49.

  Statesmen—­
    Chang Ch’ien, mission to Bactria, 130-131. 
    Compared with men from other countries, 112. 
    Han Yue, great works of, 117. 
    Li Hung-chang, see that title. 
    Wen T’ien-hsiang, influence of Chinese literature on, 113-116.

  Statutes, present Chinese dynasty, 56.

  Story-tellers in Chinese towns, 61, 123.

  Street etiquette and rights, 183-186.

  Strikes—­tea strike, Hangchow, 95.

  Study of Chinese affairs, see China.

  Suffixes, Chinese language, 21.

  T’ai-p’ing rebels, pamphlets of, 56.

Taoism—­ Alchemy, 166-168.  Black art, 186-170.  Borrowing from Buddhists, 172.  Cambridge Library, collection of writings, 44.  Chuang Tzu, writer on Taoism, 148, 154-160, 165, 171.  Corruption of the Tao, 171-173 Decline, 163.  Elixir of life, 163-170.  Genuineness of Tao-Te-Ching, evidences against, 146-151.  Han Fei Tzu, writer on Taoism, 148.  Huai-nan Tzu, writer on Taoism, 149.  Immortality, see that title.  Inaction doctrine, 152, 156.  Last state, 143.  Legends of Lao Tzu, 145-146.  Philosophy of, 151-163, 182.  Poet, quotations from, 160-163.  Relativity doctrine, 156.  Struggle with Buddhists, 172.

  Tao-t’ai, intendant of circuit, 76, 83.

  Tao-Te-Ching, evidences against genuineness, 146-151.

  Tartar generals, provincial governors, 82.

  Taxation—­
    Combination and resistance, 92-96. 
    Lightness of taxation, 89. 
    New imposts, people’s approval necessary before enforcement, 90-92. 
    Opium tax resisted, 95-96. 
    Pigs, tax on, resisted, 93-95. 
    Self-taxation, 84. 
      Illustrations, 92-96.
      Likin tax, 89-90. 
    Tea strike, 95.