China -- Social life and customs; Chinese language; Chinese literature; Taoism
Manchus, imprisonment, 1891, people's fury, 98.
Mandarin language _and_ Mandarins, _see those titles_.
Manichæans, 144.
Marriage customs, _see that title_.
Mencius, _see that title_.
Mental and moral training, relative values of Greek and Chinese,
109-119.
Mirrors, ancient Chinese and Greek, 132-133.
Murder, conviction for, illustrations, 103-106.
Music, _see that title_.
Mystery—the Chinaman a mystery, 206, 208.
Nestorian Christians, 143.
Newspaper extracts, 209-210.
Novels, 61-62.
Official coats, "horse-shoe sleeves," 179.
Official positions, _see that title_.
Olive, Greek and Chinese associations, 128.
Opposites—China regarded as land of opposites, 119, 210.
Penal code, 56, 87-88.
Personal freedom, 87-88.
Plays, _see that title_.
Poetry, _see that title_.
Population, vastness of, 3.
Portrait-painting, _see that title_.
Protestant missionaries, 144.
Puppet shows, alleged origin, 123.
Quails, fighting, common custom in Greece and China, 126.
Queue _see that title_.
Readers, professional, 61.
Religions, _see that title_.
Rhyme, 67-68.
Riots—people's self-government, 97-101.
Rip Van Winkle, story of, 55.
Roman Catholicism, 144.
_Romance of Three Kingdoms_, novel, 61-62.
Self-government, illustrations, 69-106.
Self-taxation, _see_ Taxation.
Senior Classics _see that title_.
Social life, knowledge of, 181-182.
Spanish seizure of islands, method of, 136.
Statesmen, _see that title_.
Statutes of present dynasty, 56.
Story-tellers, 61, 123.
Street etiquette and rights, 183-186.
Study of Chinese affairs—
Advantages of study, 140, 211.
Columbia University endowment, 4, 37, 211.
Language, _see that title_.
People, study of, 205-206.
Recent growth of study, 3.
Students needed, 139, 208, 211.
Taoism, _see that title_.
Taxation _see that title_.
Viceroys, 76, 82, 83.
Visitors, _see that title_.
Water-clocks, Grecian, 128.
Watermelon, term for, Greek origin, 134.
Wên T'ien-hsiang, influence of Chinese literature and training on,
113-116.
Western incidents in literature, 135-139.
Widows, 201-202.
Wine, introduction of grape-wine, 131.
Wine-drinking, _see that title_.
Women, _see that title_.
Wuchang bridge incident, 97.
Zebra, picture of, in ancient Chinese book, 59.
Zoroastrians in, 144.
Christians, Nestorian, in China, 143.
Christianity and ancestral worship in China, 109-201.
Chuang Tzŭ, Taoist writer, 148, 154-160, 165, 171.
Chu Hsi, commentary, 43.
Chung-king, tax on pigs resisted, 93-95.
Circuits, division of provinces into, 76, 83.
Classics, study of, relative values of Chinese and Greek training,
109-119.
Clocks, Chinese—
Newspaper extract, 210.
Water-clocks, Grecian and Chinese, 128.
Coats, official, "horse-shoe sleeves," 179.
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