Wall, Great, see Great Wall Wang Chao, invents new alphabet, 217 Ward, Frederick G., the American, and the Tai-ping rebellion, 160 Ward, Hon. J. E., American minister, proceeds to Peking by land, 167 [Page 327] declines to kneel to Emperor, 168 Wei, one of the Nan-peh Chao, 116 Weihien, in Shantung, destined to become a railway centre, 30 Weihwei-fu, city on the border of Chihli and Honan, 41 Wensiang, success of Prince Kung's administration largely due to him, 277 contests with Tungsuin in extemporaneous verse, 277 Wen-ti, "patron of letters," a ruler of the house of Han, 107 Wen-wang, the real founder of the Chou dynasty, 84 encourages letters, 84 known as a commentator in the _Yih-king_, 84 Whales, the river near Hang-chow a trap for, 23 Wheat, produced in all the provinces, 3 Williams, Dr. S. Wells, takes charge of American Board printing press at Canton, 283 labours, 283 "The Middle Kingdom," 283 Witte, Count, and Portsmouth treaty, 193 Women in China, considered out of place in attempting to govern, 82 Writing, reform in, 216 new alphabet invented, 217 Wu, Empress, succeeds Kao-tsung and reigns for twenty-one years, 121 Wu Pa, the five dictators, 96 Wu San-kwei, a traitorous Chinese general, makes terms with the Manchus, 140-141 Wu Ti, Liang emperor, who became a Buddhist monk, 117 Wu-ti, "the five rulers," 71 Wu-ting-fang, Chinese minister at Washington, and legal reforms, 214 Wu-wang, the martial king, rescues the people from the oppression of the Shangs, 83 Xavier, St. Francis, arrives at Macao, is not allowed to land, and dies on the Island of St. John, 138 Yang, chief supporter of the leader of the Tai-pings, 157-158 Yang Chia Kow, called by foreign sailors "Yankee Cow," at the mouth of the Yellow River, 29 Yang-tse Kiang, possible Tibetan source of, 63 new islands made by, 28 Yan Kien, a Chinese general sets up the Sui dynasty, 117 Yao, type of an unselfish monarch, 73 astronomical observations, 76 passes by son in naming his successor, 73 Yeh, Viceroy, and the _Arrow_ War, 162 [Page 328] Yellow River, source of, 63 forsakes its old bed, 29 "Yellow ruler, the," reputed inventor of letters and the cycle of sixty years, 72 Yellow Sea, why so called, 28 Yermak, 182 Yu and Li, two bad kings of the house of Chou, 88 Yuen or Mongol dynasty 131-134 Yuen Shi Kai, Viceroy, preeminent in the work of reform, 212 Yungcheng, succeeds Kanghi and reigns fourteen years, 144 Yungloh, emperor of the Ming dynasty, 136 "Thesaurus of," 136 Yünkwei, viceregal district of, 15, 52 Yünnan, province of, 52, 53 coal measures and copper mines, 52 hundred tribes of aborigines within its borders, 52 unhealthful climate, 52 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Awakening of China, by W.A.P. Martin