Ai Di 63
Aizong 205
Ajanta, India 98
Akhutai 216
All Souls festival 151
Altar of Heaven, Beijing 238
Altar of Heaven, Luoyang 36, 79
Altar to Soil and Grain 238
Amitabha 95
Amu Darya, see Oxus River
Amur River 271
An Lushan 13, 127, 128, 133, 136, 141
Ananta 216
Arabia 198
Asking the Way to the Mountains (Ju Ran) 166
Australia 229
Ayurbarwada Khan 215, 216, 217
Bacon, Francis 173
Baghdad 111
Bai Juyi 114, 125, 126, 147, 192, 193
Bamiyan 98
Bang Zhao 71
Battle of Homs 201
Beijing 44, 101, 152, 155, 182, 202-208, 219, 223, 229, 230, 233, 238, 243, 249, 254, 260
Beiping, see Beijing
Big Wild Goose Pagoda 12, 121, 122, 157
Biting Girl 149
Board of Rites 143
Book of Changes, The 60
Book of History, The 20, 21, 60
Book of Odes, The 60
Book of Zhuangzi, The 26
Boxer uprising of 1900 152
Buckingham Palace 270
Buddhism 12, 13, 77, 94, 97, 99, 104, 115, 121, 136-142, 189, 193, 195, 202, 207, 210, 254, 267
Bukhara 200
Bureau of Military Affairs 180
Burma 271
Campaigns of the Holy Warrior 203
Canton, see Guangzhou
Cao Pi, see Wen Di, Wei emporer
Cape of Good Hope 230
Carp Street, Beijing 239
Cathay 177
Central Asia 12, 57, 58, 98, 99, 104, 115, 119, 128, 143-145, 201, 203, 217, 253
Central Asian Muslims 217
Chabi 210-1
Chan Buddhism 94, 189, 190, 202, 254
Chang’an 9, 11-12, 32, 35, 41, 43, 52-54, 56-63, 67, 68-72, 76, 79, 84, 87, 91, 97, 99, 111-117, 120, 123-129, 133-159, 181, 184, 206
Charles II, King of England 161
Che River 179
Chen Baxian 96
Chen dynasty 115
Cheng Di 89
Chibi 85
Christianity 12, 77, 254, 267, 268
Chu forest 44
civil service examinations 13, 60, 79, 149, 165, 167, 171, 173, 174, 224, 226, 267
Classic of Filial Piety 216
Cold Spring Pavilion 193
Columbus 173
Complete Tang Poems 33
Confucianism 12, 29, 31, 60, 62, 72, 92, 95, 121, 202, 274
Confucius 19, 21, 22, 28, 29, 31, 37, 61, 62, 72, 80, 91, 137, 142, 161, 174, 184, 202, 238, 248, 264
Crimean War 268
Da Yuezhi 57
Dadu, see Beijing, under Yuan dynasty 14, 15, 34, 37, 199, 200, 205-208, 211, 214-218, 223, 238
Dagu 269
Daoguang 264
Daoism 12, 22, 24, 30-32, 68, 77, 92, 97, 99, 121, 142, 144, 166, 194, 202
de Tournon, Maillard 255
Delphi, oracle at 21
Department of the Inner Palace 135
Dong Xian 63
Dong Zhou 84
Dou family 71
Dragon Mountain 193
Drying House 75
East Africa 229
East China Sea 198
Eastern Jin dynasty 86, 88, 89, 94
Eastern Lodge 71
Eastern Market, Chang’an 147
Eastern Palace 76
Eastern Wei dynasty 11, 82, 85, 96, 100
Eclecticism 77
Eight Banners 251
Eighteen Capitals of China (Gill) 158
elixir of life 22, 26, 27, 30, 46, 68, 135, 138, 142, 144
Empress Dou 71
Empress Fu 63
Empress He 83
Empress Wang 123
Empress Wu 12, 13, 123-125, 129
Enlightenment, see European Enlightenment
Eternal Palace 52, 53, 55, 62, 63, 67, 69, 72, 76
Eternal Peace Monastery 104, 106
eunuchs 11, 15, 27, 56, 74-76, 81-84, 129, 133-135, 141, 150, 152, 154, 238, 243, 246, 247, 249, 252, 277, 278
Europe 16, 35, 37, 46, 52, 60, 114, 148, 160, 172, 173, 177, 184, 194-196, 201, 211, 225, 229, 248, 251, 259, 260, 264-272, 276, 278
European Enlightenment 52
European Reformation 173
Everlasting Sorrow (Bai Juyi) 125
Family Rituals (Zhu Xi) 161, 184
Fan Su 148
Father Amiot 260
Fei Di 93
First Gate to All under Heaven 246, 250
First Opium War 266
Five Dynasties 13, 89, 152-155, 166, 167, 182
Five Elements 24-26, 32, 65, 80
Former Han dynasty 11, 52, 57, 62
Former Liang dynasty 88, 94, 154
France 268
Francisan Odoric of Pordenone 180
Fu Jian 90
Fu Su 48
Gansu province 88
Gao Huan 107
Gao Zu 33
Gaozong, see Li Zhi
Gaozu, see Liu Bang
Garden of the Sleek Dragon 76
Gate of Extending Light 70
Gate of Heavenly Favors 244
Gate of Heavenly Purity 15, 237
Gate of Spreading Light 71
Gate of Supreme Harmony 233, 235
Gill, William Edgar 158
Gobi desert 57
Golden Water River 235
Grand Canal, Chang’an 33, 112, 114
Great Accord 21
Great Constitution dynasty 276
Great Exhibition 268
Great Fire of 1666 161
Great Luminous Palace 33, 111, 112
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 189, 278
Great Red Gate 243
Great Salvation 23
Great Shang, see Anyang
Great Wall of China 15, 33, 44, 57-59, 67, 86, 97, 99, 143, 195, 198, 229, 230, 244, 246, 248, 250, 261
Great Wild Goose Pagoda, see Big Wild Goose Pagoda
Greater Luoyang 103
Green Mound 210
Green Woodsmen 66
Guan Hanqing 239
Guandi Temple 239
Guangzhou 149, 176, 247, 264-269, 273
Guangzong 185
Güyüg Khan 204
Hagia Sophia 157
Haley’s comet 65
Hall of Heavenly Favors 244
Hall of Supreme Harmony 15, 231, 235-237
Hall of the Supreme Ruler, see Hall of Supreme Harmony
Hall of Virtuous Light 76
Hall That Dispels Clouds 259
Han Yu 136-138, 144, 148, 151, 182
Hangzhou 14, 33-35, 147, 148, 156, 158, 165, 167, 169, 170, 177-180, 184-198, 223, 256
Hanoi, Vietnam 172
Hanuman, see Sun Wukong
Hawaii 274
He Di 80
Heavenly Corridor 44
Hindu Kush 57
Hirohito 278
Historical Records (Sima Qian) 59
Historical Records of the Five Dynasties (Ouyang Xiu) 154
History of the Former Han, The (Ban Gu) 66, 71
HMS Cornwallis 266
Ho Di 71
Hong Kong 16, 34, 178, 198, 261, 266, 268, 269, 271, 274
Hong Xiuquan 267
Hongwu, see Zhu Yuanzhang
Hu Hai, see Er Shi Huang Di
Huai River 188
Huang Chao 145, 146, 150, 152, 154
Huidi 228
Huizong 13, 163-165, 167, 176, 178, 188
Hulegu Khan 204
Hundred Days of Reform 16, 263, 272
Hundred Families 21
Huns, see Xiongnu
Huo family 57
Imperial Ancestral Temple 56, 165, 238
imperial examinations, see civil service examinations
Imperial Japanese Army 271
India 12, 22, 27, 28, 46, 57, 60, 77, 94, 95, 98, 99, 104, 121, 140, 143, 194, 196, 198, 229, 230, 239, 264, 265, 266, 267, 273
Indian Asia 22
Indian Mutiny 268
Inglis, Robert 60
Irish 268
Istanbul, Turkey; see also Constantinople 157
Jam-dpal 253
Japan 16, 37, 94, 114, 139, 140, 143, 167, 190, 215, 229, 248, 259, 264, 271, 272, 278
Jayaatu Khan, see Tugh Temür Khan
Jews 77
Jianye 88
Jin people 14, 34, 86-90, 154, 156, 157, 164, 176, 178, 185-188, 197, 198, 201-205, 207, 208
Jing Di 55
Jingdi, see Zhu Qiyu
Jingzong 139
Journey to the West (Wu Cheng’en) 240
Ju Ran 166
Kaifeng; under Jin; under Northern Song 13, 14, 34, 153-170, 173-176, 180-182, 185, 186, 189, 195-197, 214
Kang Youwei 271-274
Karakorum, Mongolia 34, 199, 202-204, 211
Kazakhstan 58
Khayishan, see Külüg Khan
Khmer kings of Cambodia 27
Kinsai, see Hangzhou
Kong Yuji 264
Korean peninsula 33
Kowloon 271
Kublai Khan 14, 15, 34, 35, 177, 178, 198-200, 204-208, 210, 211, 213-216, 223, 230, 238, 239
Kucha 98
Külüg Khan 216
Kumarajiva 99
Kushan, see Da Yuezhi
Lady Napier 265
Lake Balkhash 58
Lantern festival 151
Later Han dynasty 11, 12, 70, 77, 78, 82, 88, 102, 113, 136, 138, 239
Later Tang dynasty 153, 154, 182
Legalism 52
Legation Quarter 16, 37, 272, 273, 278
Leibniz, Gottfried 248
Lessons for Women (Bang Zhao) 72
Li Bai 144, 145, 164, 190, 256
Li family 12, 117, 118, 121, 125
Li Hongzhang 267
Li Qingzhao 169
Li Shimin 12, 13, 33, 117-121, 123, 144, 211
Li Zhi 12, 121, 122, 123, 165, 178, 179, 188, 189, 197
Liang family 81
Liang Ji 81
Liang Kai 190
Liang Wu Di 137
Liaodong peninsula 271
Lin’an, see Hangzhou
Ling Di 81-83
Lingyin Monastery 189, 190, 193
Lintong 126
Little Barbarian 148
Liu Bang 10, 11, 15, 32, 50-56, 60, 62, 76, 84, 119, 120
Liu Ho 55-57
Liu Pei 85
Liu Song dynasty 94
Liu Xijun 58
Liu Xiu, see Guangwu Di
Liu Yu 91
London 161, 251, 255, 260, 273
Longevity Hills 104
Longevity Mountain 259
Lord Macartney, see George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
Lord Napier, see William Napier
Lord Palmerston, see Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Lu family 54
Lu Xun 264
Luoyang; under Later Han dynasty; under Qin dynasty; under Sui dynasty; under Tang dynasty; under Tuoba Wei dynasty; under Zhou dynasty 88, 91, 96, 99-107, 111, 113, 116, 120, 123, 125, 127, 128, 148, 150, 152, 156-158, 250
Macartney, George, 1st Earl Macartney 37, 259-261
Magellan 173
Maitreya 218
Malindi (in modern Kenya) 229
Manchu dynasty, see Qing dynasty
Manchuria 16, 33, 155, 246, 250
Manchus 15, 34-37, 206, 238, 246, 249-254, 262, 267, 270, 271, 275, 278
Manichaean priests 141
Manjusri, see Jam-dpal
Manzhouguo 278
Marco Polo 13, 14, 34, 35, 177, 178, 181, 182, 191, 196, 199, 200, 207, 208, 210, 211, 213, 214, 238
Matheson, James 265
Matteo Ricci 52, 248, 254, 255
Meiji government 264
Mencius 70
Meridian Gate 232, 235, 238, 239, 247, 249, 270
Miao Shan, cult of 193-195
Middle Harmony Hall 236
Milky Way 44
Ming dynasty 15, 35, 193, 198, 224, 227, 230, 244, 246
Ming Huang, see Xuanzong
Mingzong 154
Mongol dynasty, see Yuan dynasty
Mongolia 15, 35, 58, 198, 216,
Mongols; see also Yuan dynasty 14, 34, 88, 155, 178, 182, 197-201, 203-205, 208, 211, 214, 215, 217, 219, 241, 243, 244, 246, 261
Moscow 172
Mount Li 9, 26, 30, 44, 55, 126
Mount Meru 27
Mount Tai 26, 27, 30, 36, 37, 61
Mu Qi 190
Muslims 217
Nanjing; under Ming dynasty 7, 11, 12, 15, 35, 86-96, 115, 136, 137, 185, 197, 217, 218, 219, 223-231, 241, 243, 249, 254, 256, 266, 268, 276
National Assembly of China 275
Neo-Confucianism 185
Nestorian monks 12
New Army 276
New World 149
Nine Border Garrisons 246
Northern Palace 72-74, 76, 77, 80, 84, 85
Northern Song dynasty 155, 156, 170, 173
Ocean Terrace 272
Ode to the Eastern Capital (Zhang Heng) 75
Open Door policy 273
Ordos 246
Ortai 255
Outlaws of the Marsh 240
Ouyang Xiu 154, 155, 162, 163, 173
Palace Museum, Taipei 278
Palace of Long-lived Benevolence 114
Palace of the Cosmic Ultimate 114
Paramount Temple 30
Penglai 26
People’s Republic of China 240
Persians 198
Ping, Zhou King 24
Pingcheng 7, 11, 12, 87, 96, 97-100, 102, 157,
Polish 200
Ponte Rialto, Venice 177
Portugal 264
Portuguese 149, 229, 230, 247, 248, 264
Protecting Harmony Hall 15, 236, 237
Protestant Christianity 267
Purple Forbidden City 15, 16, 35, 207, 231, 232, 238, 239, 247-249, 259, 260, 262, 270, 272, 276, 278
Pyongyang, Korea 116
Qianlong 16, 37, 252, 259-261, 263
Qidans 154-156, 176, 202, 205, 207
Qin Shi Huang Di 9, 22, 24-27, 30, 32, 37, 42-44, 46-49, 52, 55, 65, 68, 78, 80, 85, 102, 228,
Qindao 276
Qing dynasty 36, 206, 224, 254, 267, 270, 271, 274, 275, 277
Qingdao 271
Qingming monastery 103
Qiujun 246
Qufu, shrine of Confucius at 37, 72
Ratnacandra 140
Record of Good and Evil Rulers since Antiquity, A (Wei Zheng) 120
Record of the Monasteries of Luoyang 103, 104
Record of the Western Regions (Xuanzang) 121
Record of the Willow Quarter, The 146, 149
Red Eyebrows 69
Red Guards 189
Reformation, see European Reformation
Renaissance, see European Renaissance
Ricci, Matteo 52, 248, 254, 255
Righteous Harmonious Fist 272
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guanzhong) 240
Royal Chamber 44
Sage of Lu’s cult 61
Sakyamuni Buddha 121
Salt and Iron Bureau 143
Schall von Bell, Johann Adam 254
Scholars of the Northern Gate 124
Sea Palaces 238
Secret History of the Mongols, The 200
Shaanxi province 24
Shandong province 37, 49, 55, 72, 271, 276
Shang Di 19
Shang dynasty 19
Shanxi province 96
Shi Ke 189
Shizong 249
Shu forest 44
Shunzhi 254
Sichuan province 85
Sima Yan 86
Siren, Oswald 233
Six Persimmons (Mu Qi) 190
Sizong 250
Snow in Midsummer (Guan Hanqing) 239
Society for the Worship of God 268
Son Buddhism, see Chan Buddhism
Song of a Prince Deposed (Du Fu) 127
Southern Palace 71-76, 81, 83, 84
Southern Song dynasty 34, 35, 185, 254
Southwark 251
Spirit Road, Beijing 244
Spring and Autumn Annals 60
Spring Festival on the River (Zhang Zeduan) 158-163, 165, 180
Sri Lanka 230
St. Paul’s Cathedral 273
Study of the Governmental Reforms in Japan, A (Kang Youwei) 272
Su Dungpo, see Su Shi
Sui dynasty 12, 111, 115, 119, 121
Suiyuan garden 256
Summer Palace 16, 37, 123, 225, 257-259, 270, 271
Sun Wukong 240
Suzong 128
Syria 201
Tai people 88
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 268
Taiping uprising 267
Taizong, see Li Shimin
Taizu, see Zhao Kuangyin
Tang dynasty 13, 33, 115, 120, 123, 127, 135, 143, 146, 151, 154
Tang, Shang King 23,
Tarim basin 57
Temple of Gaozu 62
Temple of Heaven, Beijing 36, 238, 276
Temple of Heaven, Pingcheng 98
Temple of Past Emperors 239
Temple of the Ancestors 21
Temple of the City God 239
Temple of the Eminent Founder 76
Temple of the Epochal Founder 76
Temple of the Fire God 239
Temple, Henry John, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 264, 265, 268, 269, 271
Terrace of the Immortals 141
Teutonic Knights 200
Theodosius II 111
Thirty Years’ War 173
Three Sages 202
Tian Fei 230
Tiananmen Square 271
Tianshun, see Zhu Qizhen
Tianzhu Temple 193
Timur Khan 215
Ting family 63
Töregene 204
Tower of London 255
Travels, The (Marco Polo) 35, 178, 208, 211, 213, 214
Treaty of Nanjing 266
Treaty of Shimonoseki 271
Treaty Ports 266
Tuoba Gui 96
Tuoba Turks 11, 12, 96-99, 102
Tuoba Wei dynasty 11
Turfan 98
Turkestan 253
Turks; see also Tuoba Turks 11, 12, 35, 96-102, 117, 141, 144, 198
Twenty-One Demands 276
Two Patriarchs Harmonizing Their Minds (Shi Ke) 189
Ukhaatu Khan 218
Ukraine 201
Verbeist, Ferdinand 255
Victoria, Queen of England 265
Virgin Mary 194
Virgin Yu 150
Vishnu 230
Voltaire 248
von Ketteler, Clemens 272
von Waldersee, Alfred Graf 273
Wang E 205
Wang family 63
Wang Zhen 241
Wangli Palace 49
War and Peace (Tolstoy) 240
Warring States period
Wei dynasty 11, 82, 85, 96, 98, 100
Wei River valley 50
Wei Zheng 118-120
Well of Heaven 81
Wen Di, Former Han emperor 54, 55, 59, 60
Wen Di, Liu Song emperor 91-93
Wen Di, Sui emperor 32, 96, 111-116
Wen Di, Wei emperor 11, 85, 100
Wen, King of Zhou 44
Wenceslaus Hollar 160
Wenshu 253
Wenzong, see Tugh Temür Khan
West Lake at Hangzhou 14, 167, 179, 189-193, 195, 256
Westminster, England 251
White Lotus 218
White Pagoda Mountain 206, 207, 210
Willow Quarter, Chang’an 13, 146-150
Willow Quarter, Kaifeng 163
World War II 259
Wu Cheng’en 240
Wu Di 26, 27, 30, 31, 55, 57-63, 72
Wu Zhao, see Empress Wu
Wuchang 275
Wuhan 275
Wuzong, Ming emperor 147-149
Wuzong, Tang emperor 13, 140-142
Xanadu, see Shangdu
Xia Gui 167
Xia kings 23
Xia Wuzu 47
Xia, Tibet 156
Xian Wen Di 100
Xianbei states 87
Xianfeng 269-271
Xiangyang 198
Xianyang 7, 9,11, 27, 30, 41-44, 46-50
Xiao Wu Di 93
Xiaozong 185
Xinjiang province 57
Xiongnu 11, 52, 57-59, 66, 70, 72, 87, 88, 90, 102
Xuanzong 13, 33, 125-127, 136, 143, 150
Yang Di 33
Yang family 127
Yang Jian, see Wen Di, Sui emporer
Yang Yuanzhi 87
Yang Yuhuan, see Yang Guifei
Yangzi River 88, 175, 186, 218, 275,
Yangzi river valley 77, 153, 178, 197
Yao people 88
Ye 107
Yellow River 20, 96, 156-158, 196, 201, 214, 239, 246
Yelü Chucai 202-205
Yesün Temür Khan 217
yin-yang 31
Yongle 15, 35, 224, 228-231, 239, 241, 244
Yongle Encyclopedia 224
Yu Cong 150
Yu Liang 89
Yuan Di 62
Yue Fei 186-189
Yue people 88
Yunnan 254
Yuzong 151
Zaiton, Fuji 196
Zao Di 55
Zen Buddhism, see Chan Buddhism
Zhang Heng 79
Zhang Qian 58
Zhang Xun 277
Zhao Mingcheng 169
Zheng, Qin King, see Qin Shi Huang Di
Zhezong 175
Zhongzong 124
Zhou dynasty 24, 25, 32, 44, 65
Zhu Qiyu 243
Zhu Wen 152-154
Zhu Xi 161, 162, 184-186, 194, 224
Zhu Yuanzhang 15, 35, 218, 219, 223, 224, 227, 228, 241
Zu Yi 20