Bamboo tablets, writings of Confucius engraved on, 106 Battle of the Sea of Japan, 191-192 Bell-tower, boy's soul supposed to be hovering in, 21 Black-haired race, Chinese style themselves the, 151 Bowring, Sir John, Governor of Hong Kong, and the _Arrow_ case, 162-163 Boxer War, the, 172-180 a Boxer manifesto, 175 Boycott, the, 247, 252, 253, 259 Bridges, 16, 41, 42 Bridgman, Dr., pioneer missionary to China, 282 founds the Chinese Repository, 282 Buddhism, introduction of, into China, 95 "Apotheosis of Mercy," a legend of Northern Buddhism, 108 number of Buddhist monasteries, 108 rooted in the minds of the illiterate, 108 Burden, Bishop, of the English Church Mission. Hang-chow, 23 Burlingame, Hon. Anson, U. S. Minister to China, 212 Cambalu, Mongol name for Peking, 59 [Page 310] Camöens, tomb of, at Macao, 9 Canton, the most populous city of the Empire, 9-12 American trade suffers most in Canton from boycott of 1905, 13 averts bombardment by payment of $6,000,000 ransom, 154 Christian college, 10 cock-fighting the popular amusement, 10 crowds of beggars, 12 excellence of tea and silk produced in the vicinity, 13 "flower-boats," 9 historical enigma contests, 11 narrowness of streets, 12 passion for gambling, 11 Canton (Kwangtung), province of, 7-13 Viceroy of, has also Kwangsi under his jurisdiction, 13 Caravan Song, 61 Chang Chien, legend of, 63 Chang-fi, rescues son of Liu Pi from burning palace, 114 Chang Tien-shi, arch-magician of Taoism, 109 Chang Chi-tung, Viceroy of Hukwang, his life and public career, 219-241 first to start the Emperor on the path of reform 213 case of Chunghau, 223-224 his commercial developments at Wuchang, 231 official interviews with, 238-241 Chang Yee, an able diplomatist of the Chou period, 99 Chao, Prince of, is offered fifteen cities for a Kohinoor belonging to him, 98 Chau-siang subjugates Tung-chou-Kiun, last monarch of the Chou dynasty, 99 Chefoo (Chifu), port in Shantung province, 32 Chéhkiang, province of, smallest of the eighteen provinces, 17-24 Cheng-wang, "the completer," a ruler of the Chou dynasty, 86-87 his successors, 87-88 Chentung, Liang, Sir, interview with Dr. Martin with reference to the Exclusion Laws and the boycott, 252 Chin, one of the Nan-peh Chao, 117 China, probable derivation of name, 101 agency of missionaries in diffusing secular knowledge in, 281-291 American exclusion laws, 253 anti-opium edict, 304-305 boycott, 247, 252, 253, 259 condition after five wars, 181 displays of barbarity during the Boxer War, 180 effect of her defeat by Japan, 171 effects of Russo-Japanese War, 193 eighteen provinces, 6 [Page 311] five grand divisions, 3 Grand Canal, 31 Great Wall, 4, 31, 32, 101 interference in Tongking, 62 interference in Korea, 62 physiographical features, 4 reforms in, 196-218 rivers, 19, 15, 18, 25, 41, 52 sincerity of reformatory movements, 306 China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, 200