Examinations announced, 111, 112; _District Examinations_, first day, 112, 113; second to fourth days, 113; fees, 113, 114; second examination on fifth or sixth day, 114; third examination, 114; fourth examination, 114; fifth examination, 115; number of successful candidates small, 115; _Prefectural Examinations_, their character, 116; number of candidates, 116; severity of hall regulations, 117, 118; fees of successful candidates, 119; "joyful announcements," 119, 120; honours paid successful candidates, 120; diplomas lacking, 120, 121; literary buttons and their forfeiture, 121; result of negligence of examiners, 127, 128; examinations required after first degree is obtained, 129. Fairs, shopkeepers preparing for, 50; gambling at temple fairs, 144; differentiated from markets, 149; numbers attending, 149; duration, 150; essentials to their success, 150; opened by a play, 150. "Falconing" with a woman, 296. Family disunity: why marriage is an element in this, 324-326; disunity due to daughters, 326; due to married sons living at home, 326, 327; due to distribution of property, 327-329; due to "empty grain-tax land," 329, 330; due to poisoning propensities, 330, 331; due to lack of mutual confidence, 332; due to lack of sympathy and pity, 333; due to "face," 335, 336; due to transmigration ideas, 336; due to domestic brawls, 337; partial remedy for this disunity, 338. Family, unstable equilibrium of the Chinese: unit of social life, 317; equilibrium affected by famine, 317; by inundation, 317, 318; by rebellions, 318; by the labour market, 318; by lawsuits, 319; by debts, 320; by sickness, 320, 321; by gambling and opium among the wealthy, 321; by social immorality, 322. Farmers in China comparatively independent, 146. Farms in various plots, 163. "Feast" in its technical sense, 183. Ferries, why essential in the North, 39; loading animals and carts on the boats, 40, 41; unloading, 41; why ferry reforms are deemed impossible, 42. Ferule and its uses, 78, 89. Financiering, seven deadly sins of Chinese, 204-208. "Five Classics," 85. Five degrees of relationship, 193. Foot-binding, 261. Foreigners attacked in theatres, 65, 66. "Four Books," 85. Freedom of assembling, 228. Funerals: of suicides, 186; why pillaging occurs at rich men's funerals, 186; fate of unpopular survivors, 187; announcing funeral expense deficits, 187, 188; coöperative bearers, 188; catafalque ownership, 188; funeral aid societies, 189, 190; two factors determining elaborateness of, 192; rites of the "seven sevens," 192; shabby paraphernalia, 193; mourning costume, 193; blocking the procession, 194; funeral director's duties, 194; at the grave, 195.