Tea, serving and drinking, 187.

  Tea strike, Hangchow, 95.

  Tenses, Chinese language, 13-15.

  “Three Doctrines,” 143, 145.

  Tones, Chinese language, 20
    Arrangement of concordance to phraseology, 66-68.

  Topographies, Chinese, Cambridge collection, 57-60.

  University, Columbia, endowment of Chinese chair, 4, 37, 211.

  University of Cambridge, Library, see Library.

  Veils for women, abolition of, 197.

  “Veritable Record,” Cambridge collection, 48.

  Viceroys, Chinese, 76, 82, 83.

  Visitors, Chinese etiquette, 186-189. 
    Invitation to dinner, 188. 
    Left-hand, place of honour, 187. 
    Tea, serving and drinking, 187.

  Vitale, Baron, publication of Chinese nursery rhymes, 206.

  Water-clocks, Chinese and Grecian, 128.

  Watermelon, Chinese term for, Greek origin, 134.

  Wen Tien-hsiang, influence of Chinese literature and training on,
    113-116.

  Western incidents in Chinese literature, 135-139.

  Widows, Chinese, 201-202.

  Wine, introduction of grape-wine into China, 131.

  Wine-drinking—­
    Anecdotes, 127-128. 
    Grecian resemblances, 126-127. 
    Guest-tea, 187.

  Wives—­
    “Henpecked husbands,” 204. 
    Status, etc., 196, 198, 199.
    [See also Women.]

  Women—­
    Ancestry of ancient Chinese traced through mother, 27.
    Biographies of Eminent Women, 50. 
    Disregard of, 189. 
    Education, 197-198. 
    False hair, 180. 
    Foot-binding, see that title. 
    Girls, see that title. 
    Greek similarities, 121-122. 
    “Henpecked husbands,” 204. 
    Official life, 198. 
    Painting the face, custom, 122. 
    Poems by, 60, 197. 
    Privileges not shared by men, 201. 
    Seclusion, 177, 196. 
    Shopkeepers, business ability, 198. 
    Veils, abolition of, 197. 
    Widows, 201-202. 
    Wives, see that title.

  Written Chinese language, see Language.

  Wuchang bridge incident, 97.

  Yuean Yuean, commentary, Confucian Canon, 43.

  Zebra, picture of, in ancient Chinese book, 59.

  Zoroastrians in China, 144.