Boxer rising, 209; due to enmity of North and South, 268; directed against Manchus, yet exploited by the Dowager-Empress, 271-2; collapse of, 272-3 British authorities, weakness of, 119; letter to Consul, 122-3 British Concession, under fire, 108 British trade in China, 25-8 Cantlie, Dr., and the rescue of Sun Yat-sen from the Chinese Legation, 208-09 Canton, outbreak at, 16; conspiracy of 1895, 202-07 Cartoons, anti-foreign, 241 Cecil, Lord William, 30-2 _Central China Post_ on Manchu Dynasty, 260-2 Chang Piao, General, 55, 58; interview with, 61-2; surrenders Nanking, 156-7 Cheng-tu, siege of, 241 Cheo, execution of, 277 China, extent of, 13 "China Under the Empress-Dowager," by Bland and Backhouse, 268 _China Press_, the, 159; on Republic or Monarchy, 196-200, 230 Chinese, future of the, 19, 291 Christianity in China, 30-1; future of, 43 Chwang-Lieh-ti, Emperor, hangs himself (1644), 259 Civil Service, the Chinese, 262 Clothing trade, the, 22 Concessions, position of the, 118 Concubinism, dangers of, 295 Confucianism, 43 Constitutional Monarchy, reasons in favour of, 143, 296 Constitutional Provisional Republic, the, 214-20 Corruption of Manchu Government, 18 _Coup d'état_ of 1898, 271 Courage of Chinese troops, 111 Court, Chinese, the, 297 Courts of Justice, Republican, 219 Cruelty of Imperialist troops, 140-2 Der Ling, Princess, on causes of Reform, 291-8 Dragon, the, 244 Edict, the famous Revolutionary, of General Li, 276; its provisions carried out, 277 Education, the new, 284-5 Emperor, of China, 31; the child, 295-6 Empress-Dowager, the, 226-32; diverts the Boxers from their original aim, 271, 274, 291-7 Eucken, Professor, on Reform, 286 Extortion by torture, 203-04; under the Manchus, 261 Fleet, Imperial, at Hanyang, 69, 71 Foreign Concessions, at Hanyang, 72, 119-21 Foreign intervention not desired, 265-6 Foreign Loans, 44; feeling against, 238 French, at Hankow, ask for troops, 118, 121; wish to annex Yunnan, 259 German trade in China, 25-8 Gordon, General ("Chinese"), in the Taiping Rebellion, 195, 265 _Hai Yung_, 112; Chinese cruiser, in action, 114-15 Hankow, 44; premature outbreak in the Russian Concession, 49-50; 53; the Revolution commences in, 54, 58; the burning of, 81-7; looting of, 85; ruin of, 267 Hanyang, the arsenal taken, 57-58, 87; threatened with a second bombardment, 96-8; second battle of, 107-08; final bombardment of, 125-32; fall of, through treachery, 144; 154 Hanyang Hill, captured, 147 Hat trade, captured by Japanese enterprise, 22 _Helena_, U.S.A. launch, 58 Hokwan, peculates twenty-six million sterling, 261 Hsi-fan tribes, 251 Hsuan Tung, H.I.M., 227 Hsu-Ching-cheng, executed for saving Europeans, 271 Hu Ying, Revolutionary delegate to the Peace Conference, 177-84 Hunan, troops from, fate of deserters, 143; refuse to fight, 148 Hung Siu-tsuan, 263 Hupeh, army of, 47-8, 58, 117 Hwei-ti, Emperor, revolution in days of, 257