depicting
conditions prior to Opium War, 150-151
Streets, improvement in construction and protection of, 218
Sue of Shanghai, baptised by the name of Paul by Ricci, 138
his daughter Candida also baptised, 138
Suchow, in Kiangsu, the Paris of the Far East, 25
musical dialect, of, 26
Su Ts'in, the patient diplomat, whose reputation is ruined by his own
passions, 99
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Sui dynasty, the, founded by Yan Kien, lasts less than thirty years, 117
Sundius, Mr., British consul at Wuhu, 227
Sung, one of the Nan-peh Chao, 116
Sung dynasty, founded by Chao-kwang-yun, 127
annals, 127-128
encroachment of the Tartars, 127
rise of a great school of philosophy, 127-129
Southern Sungs, 127
Superstitions of the Chinese, concerning wandering spirits, 21
Sven Hedin, explorer, 58
Swatow, Canton province, American Baptists' Mission at, 15
Szechuen, province of, 50-51
fratricidal wars under Ming dynasty, 51
great variety of climate, 51
Szema Ts'ien, the Herodotus of China, 110
barbarously treated by his people, 110

T'ai-kia, successor of Shang-tang, 80
Tai-ping Rebellion, the, a result of the Opium War, 156
details of, 157-162
Tai-pings, the, try to establish a new empire, the _Tai-ping
Tien-kwoh_, 158
commonly called "Chang-mao," long-haired rebels, owing to their rejection
of the tonsure and cue, 161
defeated by Gordon, 161
descend into the plains of Hunan, pillage three cities, and capture
Nanking, massacring its garrison of 25,000 Manchus, 158-159
go into winter quarters, and, dividing their forces, are cut off in
detail, 159
hold Nanking for ten years, 159
loose morals and travesty of sacred things horrify Christian world, 161
missionaries attracted by their profession of Christianity, 160
queer titles adopted by, 161
sympathy for their cause by Consul Meadows, 159
unsuccessfully attempt to drive the Manchus from Peking, 159
Tai-tsung, second emperor of the T'ang dynasty, 120
Taiyuan-fu, missionaries murdered at by the governor, 180
Ta-Ki, a wicked woman by whom Chou-sin is said to have been led into his
evil courses, 81
_Ta Kiang_, "Great River," the Chinese name for the Yang-tse Kiang, 28
Taku, at the mouth of the Peiho, 33
capture of forts by British and French, repulse of allied forces in
following year, 33
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Tamerlane, Mongolian origin of, 61
born in Turkestan, 61
Tanao, a minister of Hwang-ti, author of the cycle of sixty, 77
T'a