Christianity, what can it do for China? it can care for children physically, 341, 342; it creates sympathy between parents and children, 342; it teaches child-training, 342; it will revolutionise education, 342, 343; will educate girls as well as boys, 343; will foster girl friendships, 344; will lead to Christian choice of partners in marriage, 344, 345; will postpone marriage to a suitable age, 345; will oppose polygamy and concubinage, 345; will sweeten and purify home life, 345; will be a true peacemaker, 346; will make man and wife the unit of society, 346; will change ideals of friendship, 347; will implant Christian idea of brotherhood, 347; will improve the government, 348; will implant patriotism, 348, 349; the time required for this process, 349, 351, 352; this prophecy based on past accomplishment, 350; Christianity's ultimate triumph, 352. Chu Hsi's Commentary, 87. Cities irregular in form and reason therefor, 20; monotonous appearance, 25. Civilization unable to vitally change China, 348. "Classics," their excellencies, 95; their defects, 95, 96. Classification unheard of in Chinese schools, 90. Colquhoun's volume and its importance, 16, note. Concubinage, 297, 300-302. Confucius and his son, 70, 71; his theory of teaching, 71, 72; honoured in schools, 76. Constables, local, 228. Conversation, topics of, 315. Cotton-gathering and manufacture, 276. Cotton-gleaning, 166, 167. Courtyard, arrangement of buildings in a, 25; animals in, 28. Crop-watching societies, why necessary, 161-164; description of watchers' lodges, 162; fate of captured thieves, 163; announcing the existence of a society, 164; how expense is borne, 164; agreement entered into, 165; trial and punishment of thieves, 165, 166; fines, 168; effect on health, 168. Daughters, infancy of, 237. Dead, marrying to the, 298, 299. Degrees, sale of, 121; three methods of falsely securing, 122-126; motives leading men to compete for degrees, 132, 133. Democracy in China apparent, not real, 226. Dictionary, standard Chinese, 97. Digging through walls by thieves, 28. Display, Chinese love of, 191. "Distant reserve," a Chinese factor in education, 72, 73. District officials' occasional objections to theatres, 59. Divorce, seven grades of, 288. Dogs destroyers of crops, 162. Door-locking and thieves, 28. Dunning must be repeated, 206, 207. Educational Edicts of 1898, 134, 135; results, 135. Education, Chinese theories of, 71-73; its object, 91, 106. Education of girls unnecessary, 264. Emigration made necessary in Yung Lo's time, 20. Essay brokers, 124, 125. Essay, its place in Chinese education, 110, 111.