CHAPTER XXII

THE COUP D’ETAT OF 1898

The _coup d’état_ of September, 1898, was an event memorable in the annals of the Manchu Dynasty. In it, the late Emperor Kwang Su was arbitrarily deposed; treasonably made a prisoner of state; and had his prerogatives and rights as Emperor of the Chinese Empire wrested from him and usurped by the late Dowager Empress Chi Hsi.

Kwang Su, though crowned Emperor when he was five years of age, had all along held the sceptre only nominally. It was Chi Hsi who held the helm of the government all the time.

As soon as Kwang Su had attained his majority, and began to exercise his authority as emperor, the lynx eye of Chi Hsi was never lifted away from him. His acts and movements were watched with the closest scrutiny, and were looked upon in any light but the right one, because her own stand in the government had never been the legitimate and straight one since 1864, when her first regency over her own son, Tung Chi, woke in her an ambition to dominate and rule, which grew to be a passion too morbid and strong to be curbed.

In the assertion of his true manhood, and the exercise of his sovereign power, his determination to reform the government made him at once the cynosure of Peking, inside and outside of the Palace. In the eyes of the Dowager Empress Chi Hsi, whose retina was darkened by deeds perpetrated in the interest of usurpation and blinded by jealousy, Kwang Su appeared in no other light than as a dement, or to use a milder expression, an imbecile, fit only to be tagged round by an apron string, cared for and watched. But to the disinterested spectator and unprejudiced judge, Kwan Su was no imbecile, much less a dement. Impartial history and posterity will pronounce him not only a patriot emperor, but also a patriot reformer--as mentally sound and sane as any emperor who ever sat on the throne of China. He may be looked upon as a most remarkable historical character of the Manchu Dynasty from the fact that he was singled out by an all-wise Providence to be the pioneer of the great reform movement in China at the threshold of the twentieth century.

Just at this juncture of the political condition of China, the tide of reform had reached Peking. Emperor Kwang Su, under some mysterious influence, to the astonishment of the world, stood forth as the exponent of this reform movement. I determined to remain in the city to watch its progress. My headquarters became the rendez-vous of the leading reformers of 1898. It was in the fall of that memorable year that the _coup d’état_ took place, in which the young Emperor Kwang Su was deposed by the Dowager Empress, and some of the leading reformers arrested and summarily decapitated.

Being implicated by harboring the reformers, and in deep sympathy with them, I had to flee for my own life and succeeded in escaping from Peking. I took up quarters in the foreign settlement of Shanghai. While there, I organized the “Deliberative Association of China,” of which I was chosen the first president. The object of the association was to discuss the leading question of the day, especially those of reform.

In 1899, I was advised for my own personal safety, to change my residence. I went to Hong Kong and placed myself under the protection of the British government.

I was in Hong Kong from 1900 till 1902, when I returned to the United States to see my younger son, Bartlett G. Yung, graduate from Yale University.

In the spring of 1901, I visited the Island of Formosa, and in that visit I called upon Viscount Gentaro Kodama, governor of the island, who, in the Russo-Japan War of 1904-5 was the chief of staff to Marshal Oyama in Manchuria. In the interview our conversation had to be carried on through his interpreter, as he, Kodama, could not speak English nor could I speak Japanese.

He said he was glad to see me, as he had heard a great deal of me, but never had the pleasure of meeting me. Now that he had the opportunity, he said he might as well tell me that he had most unpleasant if not painful information to give me. Being somewhat surprised at such an announcement, I asked what the information was. He said he had received from the viceroy of Fuhkein and Chêhkiang an official despatch requesting him to have me arrested, if found in Formosa, and sent over to the mainland to be delivered over to the Chinese authorities. Kodama while giving this information showed neither perturbation of thought nor feeling, but his whole countenance was wreathed with a calm and even playful smile.

I was not disturbed by this unexpected news, nor was I at all excited. I met it calmly and squarely, and said in reply that I was entirely in his power, that he could deliver me over to my enemies whenever he wished; I was ready to die for China at any time, provided that the death was an honorable one.

“Well, Mr. Yung,” said he, “I am not going to play the part of a constable for China, so you may rest at ease on this point. I shall not deliver you over to China. But I have another matter to call to your attention.” I asked what it was. He immediately held up a Chinese newspaper before me, and asked who was the author of the proposition. Without the least hesitation. I told him I was the author of it. At the same time, to give emphasis to this open declaration, I put my opened right palm on my chest two or three times, which attracted the attention of everyone in the room, and caused a slight excitement among the Japanese officials present.

I then said, “With Your Excellency’s permission, I must beg to make one correction in the amount stated; instead of $800,000,000, the sum stated in my proposition was only $400,000,000.” At this frank and open declaration and the corrected sum, Kodama was evidently pleased and visibly showed his pleasure by smiling at me.

The Chinese newspaper Kodama showed me contained a proposition I drew up for Viceroy Chang Chi Tung to memorialize the Peking government for adoption in 1894-5, about six months before the signing of the Treaty of Shemonashiki by Viceroy Li Hung Chang. The proposal was to have the Island of Formosa mortgaged to a European Treaty power for a period of ninety-nine years for the sum of $400,000,000 in gold. With this sum China was to carry on the war with Japan by raising a new army and a new navy. This proposition was never carried through, but was made public in the Chinese newspapers, and a copy of it found its way to Kodama’s office, where, strange to say, I was confronted with it, and I had the moral courage not only to avow its authorship but also a correction of the amount the island was to be mortgaged for.

To bring the interview to a climax, I said, should like circumstances ever arise, nothing would deter me from repeating the same proposition in order to fight Japan.

This interview with the Japanese governor of Formosa was one of the most memorable ones in my life. I thought at first that at the request of the Chinese viceroy I was going to be surrendered, and that my fate was sealed; but no sooner had the twinkling smile of Kodama lighted his countenance than my assurance of life and safety came back with redoubled strength, and I was emboldened to talk war on Japan with perfect impunity. The bold and open stand I took on that occasion won the admiration of the governor who then invited me to accompany him to Japan where he expected to go soon to be promoted. He said he would introduce me to the Japanese emperor and other leading men of the nation. I thanked him heartily for his kindness and invitation and said I would accept such a generous invitation and consider it a great honor to accompany him on his contemplated journey, but my health would not allow me to take advantage of it. I had the asthma badly at the time.

Then, before parting, he said that my life was in danger, and that while I was in Formosa under his jurisdiction he would see that I was well protected and said that he would furnish me with a bodyguard to prevent all possibilities of assassination. So the next day he sent me four Japanese guards to watch over me at night in my quarters; and in the daytime whenever I went out, two guards would go in advance of me and two behind my jinrickisha to see that I was safe. This protection was continued for the few days I spent in Formosa till I embarked for Hong Kong. I went in person to thank the governor and to express my great obligation and gratitude to him for the deep interest he had manifested towards me.

APPENDIX

An address by the Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, delivered before the Kent Club of the Yale Law School, April 10, 1878.

A visitor to the City of Hartford, at the present time, will be likely to meet on the streets groups of Chinese boys, in their native dress, though somewhat modified, and speaking their native tongue, yet seeming, withal, to be very much at home. He will also occasionally meet Chinese men who, by their bearing, will impress him as being gentlemen of their race.

These gentlemen are officers, and these boys are pupils of the Chinese Educational Mission, although one of the most remarkable and significant institutions of the age on the face of the whole earth. The object of the mission, now of nearly six years’ standing, is the education in this country, through a term of fifteen years, of a corps of young men for the Chinese Government service; that Government paying the whole cost--an annual expense of about $100,000. The number of the officers is five, viz,--the two Imperial Commissioners in charge, a translator and interpreter and two teachers. The function of the teachers is to direct the Chinese education of the pupils, which proceeds _pari passu_ with their Western education. The number of pupils was originally 120, but now 112, one having died and seven having, for various reasons, returned to China. A fine, large house recently erected by the Chinese Government in the western part of the City, at a cost of fifty thousand dollars, is the headquarters of the Mission. There are the offices of the officers, and there is lodged the class that is present for examination and instruction in Chinese studies. For this purpose the pupils are divided into classes of about twenty, one coming as another goes, each staying at the Mission House two weeks at a time. A small part only of the whole number are permanently located in Hartford. Most of them are in other places, though not far away, generally two together attending school or receiving private instruction in families.

They come in yearly companies of thirty, beginning with 1872, and the last detachment is still chiefly engaged in learning our language.

The plan is to afford these boys the advantages of our best educational institutions--academies, colleges, and, to some extent, professional schools--to assign them, by and by, as they shall develop aptitude, to various special courses of study and training in the physical, mechanical and military sciences, in political history and economy, international law, the principles and practice of civil administration and in all departments and branches of knowledge, skill in which is useful for public government service in these modern times. And through the whole process of this education, it is to be impressed upon them that they belong and are to belong to their nation, for whose sake they are elected to enjoy these great and peculiar opportunities. The result will be, if all goes well and the plan is carried out,--and there is apparently nothing now to prevent it,--that in the year 1887 or thereabout there will go from this country to China a body of somewhere near a hundred men who have grown up under exceedingly favorable conditions from early youth to manhood here among us, destined to hold places of importance in the government and in the society of their native land, better equipped in all save experience to do for that land what most needs to be done, and inspired for their work with a more enlightened sense of patriotic duty and responsibility than any other hundred of her sons of their generation. And who can forecast or estimate the consequences that Divine Providence is thus preparing?

COMMISSIONER YUNG WING

Such in brief outline is the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States. The head and front of the whole marvellous enterprise, humanly speaking, is Commissioner Yung Wing. While others whose co-operation was indispensable, have, as will presently appear, contributed to it and still stand back of it, and justly share the credit of it with him, to him more than to any other man beside, probably more than to all other men beside, its existence is due. Its history, thus far, cannot be better told except in that connection, so intimately are the two histories related. But it becomes one who speaks of Yung Wing to observe the principle that we must be modest for a modest man, for so modest a man as he is is rare to find. He was born in 1828, of a worthy family in humble life, near the city of Macao in Southern China. In the year 1839 he became a pupil in a children’s school, opened by Mrs. Gutzlaff, the wife of an English missionary, his parents consenting to it in the idea that it would be a profitable thing for him to learn the English language. Proving a bright scholar, he was in time promoted to the Morrison School, an institution founded by English merchants in Macao and named after Robert Morrison, the first English Protestant, but at this time under charge of the Rev. S. R. Brown, a teacher engaged by the Morrison Educational Society. When later this school was transferred to Hong Kong he went with it, and remained in it till he came to this country. He suffered, however, during this time serious interruption by the death of his father, which required him to go home and, a boy that he was, assist in the support of his family. This he did by wages earned in the printing establishment of a Portuguese Roman Catholic mission in Macao.

In 1847, Mr. Brown, who had long noted his patient ardor in study, the marks of ability he showed and a certain original vigor of will and strength of character that were in him, brought him, at the age of sixteen, with two other native lads, also his pupils, of about the same age, to the United States; Andrew Shortrede, a large-hearted Scotchman, founder, proprietor and editor of _The China Mail_, published at Hong Kong, engaging to advance the means of their support for two years. The three boys were entered together at the academy in Monson, Mass., and were received into the family of Mr. Brown’s mother, who lived at Monson, a royal woman whose name is memorable in the church of Christ as that of the author of the hymn, “I love to steal awhile away.” It was while a member of her godly household that Yung Wing became a Christian believer.

It will not be out of place to state here, as a fact, the significance of which will be readily appreciated, that he caused the son who was born to him in 1876--his first-born--to be named in baptism Morrison Brown, an eloquent act of recognition and profession. Of Wing’s two companions one, Wong Shing, was compelled, by want of health, to return to China the next year. There, in the office of _The China Mail_, he learned the art of printing. From 1852 or 1853 he was for several years connected with the press of the _London Mission_ under Dr. Legge, now the eminent Professor of the Chinese Language and Literature in Oxford University. In 1873 he accompanied the second detachment of Chinese students to this country, and is at present under appointment as interpreter to the Chinese Legation soon to be established at Washington.

The other, Wong Fun, went to Scotland in 1850, and after two years general study entered the Medical Department of Edinburgh University, at which he graduated with very high honor. Returning to China in 1856, he began the practice of medicine in the city of Canton and is most highly esteemed on all that coast, both for his private character and for his professional talents, being held by many foreign residents the ablest physician in the whole region of the East beyond Calcutta. Wong Fun died Oct. 15th, 1878.

IN YALE COLLEGE

Yung Wing, after two years and a half spent at Monson, Mass., was, in 1850, though but poorly fitted for want of time, admitted to the Freshman Class in Yale College. His career in college was, in some respects, a remarkable one. Owing to his inadequate preparations, he did not, though he worked hard, take a high stand in general scholarship, yet he excelled in the departments of writing and metaphysics, and made a sensation that was felt beyond the college walls by bearing off repeated prizes for English composition. Throughout his entire course he contended with poverty, a circumstance the explanation of which deserves notice. When he became a Christian, at Monson, he heard and at once accepted his Divine call to devote his life to the Christian service of his nation. But the form of that service--what should it be? This question he had to answer, at least in part. The presumption was, and it was assumed by his friends and by the public so far as his case was known, that he would be a minister of the Gospel. But right then and there, after much careful and prayerful thinking, this boy of seventeen, though by no means doubting the value of Christian missions, fully recognizing the fact, indeed, that he himself was the direct fruit of Christian missions,--which, be it ever remembered, he was,--concluded, with an independence characteristic of him even at that age, that it was not best for him to be a missionary. He had a suspicion then, though indistinct, that he was wanted for something else. It was a costly conclusion and he was quite aware of it. It was against the views and hopes of the most of those who were around him, and by it, being without pecuniary means, he cut himself off from the resource of those charitable foundations that would have aided him as a student for the ministry. And so he was poor in college; he smiles now to remember how poor. Yet he received help from persons interested in him at New Haven and elsewhere, mainly through the medium of Professor Thatcher, whose care for him in that matter claims his liveliest gratitude to this day. And he got through. He came to college in his cue and Chinese tunic, but put off both in the course of his first year.

His nationality made him a good deal of a stranger, and this, together with his extreme natural reserve and his poverty, kept him from mingling much with the social life of college. He had not many intimates, yet he so carried himself from first to last as to merit and win the entire respect of all his class. It was in certain long walks and talks he had with his classmate, Carrol Cutler, now president of Western Reserve College, that he opened and discussed the project then forming in his mind of this Chinese Educational Mission. The idea was born, the dream was taking shape, but the way was long to its realization.

His graduation in 1854 was the event of the Commencement of that year. There were many, at least, who so regarded it, and some of them came to the Commencement principally for the sake of seeing the Chinese graduate. Among the latter was Dr. Bushnell of Hartford. He had heard of him and being strongly interested, according to the size of his great mind and heart, in the Chinese race, he desired to meet Yung Wing. An incident of their meeting on that occasion, which the writer has heard Dr. Bushnell tell, will bear repeating: When they were introduced, the Doctor gave it as one of his reasons for seeking the introduction that he desired to ascertain who had written certain newspaper articles on the Chinese question, as it then stood, which had attracted his attention as evincing marks of statesmanship. He thought Wing might know. Whereupon, as the Doctor said, Wing hung his head, and blushing like a girl, with much confusion of manner, confessed that he was their author. It is only fair to add that Mr. Wing says that he does not remember this incident. But it is equally fair to add again that in a case of this kind Dr. Bushnell’s memory, or anybody else’s, were more worthy to be trusted than Yung Wing’s.

At the time of his graduation, Wing was as much tempted as it was possible for him to be, to change the plan of his life. He had been in this country long enough to become thoroughly naturalized here. He was, in fact, a citizen. All his tastes and feelings and affinities, intellectual and moral, made him at home here. Moreover, through the notice into which his graduation brought him, it came about that a very inviting opportunity was opened to him to remain and have his career here if he chose to. On the other hand, China was like a strange land to him. He had even almost entirely forgotten his native tongue. And there was nothing in China for him to go to. Except among his humble kindred, he had no friends there; nothing to give him any standing or consideration, no place, so to speak, to set his foot on. Not only so, but considering where he had been and what he had become, and the purpose he had in view, he could not fail to encounter, among his own people, prejudice, suspicion, hostility. A cheerless, forbidding prospect lay before him in that direction. The thought of going back was the thought of exile. He wanted immensely to stay. But there was one text of Holy Scripture that, all this while, he says, haunted him and followed him like the voice of God. It was this: “If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” And by the words “his own” and “his own house,” it meant to him the nation of which he was born. The text carried the day. The benefits which he had been, as it were, singled out from a whole people to receive, his sense of justice and gratitude alike would not let him appropriate to his own advantage. And so, though he knew not what should befall him, he set his face to return; and he went to do what he has done.

He sailed soon after his graduation for Hong Kong which, after a voyage of 151 days, he reached in the month of April, 1855. When the Chinese pilot came on board he found that he could, with some difficulty, understand what he said, though he could not make the pilot understand him, which shows the condition of his knowledge of Chinese on his arrival in the country. It took him all the time he was not otherwise employed for two years to acquire facility in the use of it.

TAKING FIRST STEPS IN LIFE

As for his grand scheme, he had settled it in his own mind that the first step to be taken toward carrying it out was to contrive a way of getting it before some influential public man or men--a thing itself of infinite difficulty. With this end in view, though, of course, to make his living also, he sought and obtained the position of private secretary to the Hon. Peter Parker, then Commissioner of the United States to China, hoping that it would be the means of affording him the access he desired. Becoming satisfied upon a sufficient trial that it was not likely to answer his expectations in this regard, he resigned the place after a few months. He now attempted another way of compassing the matter. There was at Hong Kong an English bar consisting of a dozen or so lawyers doing business for the foreign commercial houses of that City. Wing bethought him that the standing and acquaintance resulting from his becoming a member of that bar might not improbably bring him the opportunity he sought. Accordingly, he entered one of the offices as a student. But presently it got out among the lawyers who this young man was, what his education had been, and they saw that his competition with them for legal practice of a Chinese city was a thing not to be allowed if it could be prevented. And so his principal, pleading the commands of his legal brethren, informed him, with many courteous expressions of regret, that he must find another place to study law in. And as there was no other place, he had to give it up.

After this followed an interval of nearly two years, during which he occupied himself with Chinese and other studies, earning his bread by such commercial translation as he could find to do, and waited for the right thing to turn up. He then, in the same hope that led him to his previous experiments, took a place in the Customs Service at Shanghai. But neither did this, on trial, promise, in his judgment, a _pou sto_ for his operations, and he soon abandoned it.

It was now 1860. Five years and nothing accomplished! To one only looking on the outside Yung Wing would appear to have thus far pursued an uncertain and rather thriftless course; but not if he penetrated his real policy and the purpose that lay ever nearest his heart; most assuredly not if he knew--what was the fact--that all this time that he was going from one thing to another and keeping himself poor, he was refusing offers of employment at rates of remuneration that to him, so long familiar with a straightened lot, seemed little short of princely. In 1860, however, overtures were made him by one of the leading silk and tea houses of Shanghai to enter its service as traveling inland agent, which, for the reason in part that it would send him touring through a wide extent of country and possess him, by observation, of a knowledge that he deemed would be useful to him, he determined to accept. This business he followed for a year, and then, seeing a good chance for it, set up in a business for himself which proved so profitable a venture that, had he continued in it, he would, to all appearances, have speedily become rich. As it was, he made a very considerable sum of money.

But in 1862 the door of the opportunity which he had been constantly feeling after from the day he landed in China, unexpectedly opened to him.

It was in this wise: While in the city of Shanghai, he made the acquaintance of a Chinese astronomer--a man of rank and of eminence in learning. Or rather, the astronomer, who had in some way gained intelligence of Wing’s antecedents, sought his acquaintance for the sake of talking astronomy with him. In repeated interviews through which their acquaintance progressed to the degree of mutual friendly regard, Wing, who had carried away from college a better knowledge of astronomy than most graduates do, told him all he knew, which was a long advance upon his own previous acquisitions in that science. This astronomer was an officer of the great Tsang Kwoh Fan, viceroy of Kiang Su and Kiang Nan provinces, generalissimo of the Imperial forces and one of the very most prominent and leading men in the whole Empire. Through representations made to him by the astronomer, he soon sent a message to Yung Wing desiring to see him, and hinting a desire to take him into his service. Though returning a favorable reply to the message, under all the circumstances and for reasons that cannot be explained, Wing delayed responding to it in person for a considerable time. The situation was a delicate one, requiring extreme caution and circumspection on his part.

But at length he paid Tsang Koh Fan the promised visit. He felt the occasion to be a critical one, and when ushered into the great man’s presence found it difficult to retain his composure. Tsang Koh Fan first bent upon him a long, intense, piercing gaze. As Wing says, he had never been looked at in his life as he was then. Then causing him to be seated, he required of him an account of his history, which he gave. He then questioned him as to his views respecting China,--her needs, her outlook, her public policy, and so on. A long conversation followed in which the Viceroy disclosed his views, to which Wing listened with amazement. For, behold, here was a man such as he had not supposed existed in that country--a man reared in China, and not a young man either--who had light in his head; who recognized the causes of many of the disadvantages China was contending with in taking her place among the family of nations; a man of marvellously liberal and progressive sentiments.

MADE A MANDARIN

The result of the interview was that Wing entered his service and was made a Mandarin of the fifth rank, there being nine degrees of that dignity in the Chinese official system. At this time the great Taiping rebellion was at its height and Tsang Koh Fan was in the field. In fact, the interview had taken place at his camp in Ngankin, on the Yang Tse River. The Viceroy first tendered Wing a military command which, on the score of lack of qualification, he asked leave to decline. He was then, shortly after, 1864, at his own suggestion, despatched abroad to purchase machinery for the manufacture of arms, for which purpose the expenditure of a large sum of money was intrusted to him. On this errand he visited France and England as well as the United States, but finally gave his orders here. On returning with his purchases to China in 1865, what he had done was so satisfactory to his chief that he was advanced to the next higher grade of official rank, viz,--the Fourth. The machinery he had bought was the foundation of the Kiang Nan Arsenal. It is curious to remark that the first work of a man whose supreme ambition it was, from Christian motives, to set his country forward in civilization, should have been the establishment of an arsenal. But it quite consisted with Yung Wing’s ideas, which were intensely patriotic.

From 1865 to 1870 he was variously employed in different places, being under command now of one superior and now of another. Among the work that he did during this period, that of translation was prominent. He translated into Chinese Parson’s Law of Contracts, and a book of English Law. He also translated large portions of Colton’s Geography, deeming that geographical knowledge was as likely to prove beneficial to his countrymen as any.

But the thing that lay nearest his heart and that was continually before him, was the question of how to accomplish the plan he had so many years held in hope. He now had ample opportunity to expound and advocate it, and he did so with inexhaustible perseverance. The main argument he used was this: China, in her international relations, in her commercial and other intercourse with foreign peoples, suffers disadvantage and much detriment from want of men capable by education of acting as her representatives. She is forced to employ in many most important places, that ought to be occupied by her own citizens, foreigners by whom her interests are liable to be neglected or betrayed. Her forts, her ships of war, her military forces, her customs, are largely in charge of foreigners. How was it proper, he asked, that Anson Burlingame, an American, should be her chief agent in arranging a treaty with his own country and other western governments? This was his general line of reasoning.

The most to whom he brought the matter heard him with indifference, but there were three men upon whom he made an impression--all men of high rank and commanding influence. They were the Viceroy, Tsang Koh Fan, already named; Li Hung Chang, now Viceroy of the capital province of Chihli and the foremost Chinese statesman; and Ting Yi Tcheang, then Governor of the Province of Kiang Su. Yet these men, convinced as they were by Wing’s reasons and avowedly favorable to his project, with all their eminence of position and their influence, were not ready to venture the attempt to carry it through with the Imperial Government. All the forces of conservatism would be opposed to it; the time for it had not come.

In 1867, however, the Governor Ting, who was the most willing of the three, had made representations to an Imperial Minister named Wan Cheang, on the strength of which he was advised to address a memorial on the subject to the Imperial Council at Peking, Wan Cheang undertaking to commend it to the attention of the Council. The situation was at this juncture moderately hopeful, but before the memorial reached the Council, the mother of Wan Cheang died, by which event he was, under the law of Chinese high official etiquette, retired from public life three entire years, and the whole business was set back to where it had been. These were years of great trial to Yung Wing. He was prospering, indeed, in one point of view, but the hope to which he was devoted was so long deferred that his heart was often sick. Understand that he was leading there in China an essentially solitary life. He had, soon after his return in 1855, in accordance with his views of what was due to his purpose, resumed his native dress and identified himself not only thus externally, but also in large measure in every other respect with his own people. Especially from the time he became a Chinese Government official, he had dwelt in Chinese society, and had disappeared almost wholly from other society. He had his books and kept up diligently with what was going on in the world of learning and letters outside--it was his only resource--but he was exceedingly alone and lonely notwithstanding. The discouragements to his endeavor that faced him were so numerous and so solid that he was sometimes half disposed to give it all up; but only half disposed.

One of the things that held him to it was not of a nature of an encouragement exactly, but it did excellently well as an antidote to the effect upon his spirits of his discouragements. It began to come to his ears now and than that his American and English friends in China were whispering it among themselves that he was a failure, that he had had a noble chance and had not known how to improve it; that he was impracticable; and that this scheme of his was utterly visionary and could never be successful. Whenever Wing heard of this, he set his teeth and took a new hold. But altogether his faith and manhood were put to an extreme test.

The end came though, as it always does in such cases, and came in a manner almost dramatic. In the month of June, 1870, occurred the woeful tragedy at Tientsin called the Tientsin Massacre, in which a considerable number of French Roman Catholic missionaries, male and female, were murdered by a Chinese mob. It followed that a commission appointed by the foreign powers, diplomatically represented in China, met that same year at Tientsin to investigate the outrage and determine the satisfaction that was to be required for it, together with a like commission appointed by the Chinese Government authorized to bring the affair to a settlement. The Chinese Commission consisted of five, and three of these five were the three men of whom mention has been made,--the viceroys Tsang Koh Fan and Li Hung Chang, and the Governor Ting Yi Tcheang.

AN OPPORTUNITY SEIZED

Yung Wing was at this time under official control of the last named, who, on being summoned to Tientsin, sent him word, for he was at a distance from him, to join the Commission at Tientsin as soon as possible, for his services would be needed there. Wing, though hastening, arrived late on the scene and found the business concluded. But on receiving an account of the difficulties that had attended its transaction, and observing that the commissioners were conscious of their disadvantage in it, he perceived an auspicious occasion for making a stroke in behalf of his scheme, and he made the most of it. He restated his arguments, enforcing them by the illustration of the case at hand, and insisted with the utmost earnestness that there ought to be no delay. And this time he prevailed. The three friends of his idea being together and countenancing one another, then and there agreed that they would at once take action to have the thing he proposed done, and would cast their united influence with the Government in its favor. They kept their agreement. They set their names to a memorial recommending the education of a corps of young men abroad for the Government service and at the Government expense. This memorial they forwarded to Pekin, where they backed it by all means in their power and to the effect that in the month of August, 1871, the measure recommended was adopted by the Imperial Government and a sum equal to $1,500,000 appropriated for its execution.

Mandarin Yung Wing was scarcely able to support the joy of his triumph. For two days, as he has told the writer, he could neither eat nor sleep. He walked on air, and he worshipped God. It was sixteen years after his return to China and twenty years after he set out for this goal that heaven had at last granted his prayer. To him the organization of the enterprise was principally committed. The feature of the long term of fifteen years resolved upon for the course of study and training to be pursued, is particularly due to him and reflects the size of the man, the type of his mind and character.

A school of candidates was at once opened at Shanghai from which the pupils were to be selected by competitive examination, and, as has been already stated, the first detachment of thirty arrived in the United States in 1872. The location of the Mission was also for him to determine. He might have procured its establishment in England, or France, or Germany; but as he himself had expressed it, the light that had enlightened him shone from America and from New England, and to America and New England he was resolved from the first this Mission should repair.

He was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Mission, receiving with the appointment his second promotion in rank, viz,--to the Third or Blue Button grade. With him was associated, as co-commissioner, a venerable scholar and dignitary,--Chin Lan Pin by name,--who, however, remained in this country less than two years, yielding his place to a younger man, Ngau Ngoh Liang, well-born, distinguished for learning, and a most agreeable gentleman.

The students of the Mission have thus far, with very few exceptions, exhibited excellent ability as scholars, and in many instances extraordinary ability, and with fewer exceptions still have been marked by their exemplary conduct. They have everywhere been most hospitably received. They are certainly worthy to be objects of the highest and most friendly interest to every Christian citizen of the United States.

Yung Wing was appointed, December 11, 1876, Associate Minister with his former colleague in the Educational Mission, Chin Lan Pin, to the United States, Peru and Spain. On this occasion he was again promoted in rank,--that is, to Second or Red Button grade, and invested with the title of Tao-tai (or Intendant) of the Province of Kiang Su.

He expects, on the now approaching arrival of Chin Lan Pin in the country, to take up his residence in Washington, yet not to relinquish the general superintendence of the institution which is so dear to him and has cost him so much, and in which are bound up his best patriotic hopes for his native land,--for he is a patriot from head to foot, in every fiber of his body. He loves the Chinese nation and believes in it, doubting not that there is before it a grand career worthy of its noble soil and of its august antiquity.

If it were the aim of the writer to magnify Yung Wing,--which it is not, but only to tell the story of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States,--there are many things more that might be related of him, all going to show him to be of the stuff that heroes are made of, and one of the most significant characters in modern civilization. But because to relate them would be aside from the purpose in hand, and also because it would grievously offend Yung Wing to have them published, they are passed by. It must be said, for the last word, that even in attributing to him so much credit of the Educational Mission itself, the share he allows himself is very far exceeded. He is accustomed to assign the chief honor of it to those three men of China who helped it so potently with their influence. Tsang Koh Fan died in 1871. His portrait hangs on the wall of the Mission House in Hartford; and the portraits of the other two are there also. The boys are taught to reverence these men as their benefactors. And they are worthy of reverence. Their names deserve to be remembered, and will be, and not alone in China. Yet undoubtedly had there been no Yung Wing, that illustrious good deed of theirs had never been performed.

INDEX

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 17, 43, 52, 58.

An Hwui, province, 124.

Anglo-Chinese dictionary, First, compiled by Dr. Robert Morrison, 14, 114.

Anhui, province, 53.

Annapolis, Naval Academy at, Chinese students refused admission, 207.

Arch, Stone, marking boundary between Chêhkiang and Kiangsi, 83.

Arnold, Dr. Thomas, of Rugby, 31.

Arsenal, _see_ Kiang Nan Arsenal.

Assam tea, _see_ Tea.

Auburn Academy, Auburn, N. Y., 22.

Baltimore clipper ships, 80.

Barnes, Brigadier-General, of Springfield, Mass., 158.

Bartlett, Daniel, son of Rev. Shubael Bartlett, 26.

Bartlett, Prof. David E., 24.

Bartlett, Mrs. Fanny P., 24.

Bartlett, Rev. Shubael, pastor of East Windsor (Conn.) Congregational church, 25, 26.

Bible, The, translated by Dr. Robert Morrison, 14, 114.

Blaine, James G., champion against Chinese, 208.

Blue feather, Wearing of, mark of rank, 154; _see also_ Rank.

Boats, Chinese, 79, 82.

Bore of Tsientang River, 81.

Bribery in Chinese government, one cause of Taiping rebellion, 119; _see also_ Graft.

Bridgeman, E. C., work on Anglo-Chinese dictionary, 114.

“Brothers in Unity,” debating society at Yale, Yung Wing assistant librarian, 39; _see also_ “Linonia.”

Brown, Mrs. Elizabeth, home at East Windsor, Conn., 25.

Brown, Mrs. Phœbe H., mother of Dr. S. R. Brown, 29; author of hymn, 30, 252.

Brown, Miss Rebekah, preceptress at Munson Academy, 28; _also_ 189.

Brown, Dr. Samuel Robins, opens Morrison school (_1839_), 13; assisted by W. A. Macy, 16; personal qualifications, 17; return to U. S. accompanied by three students, 18; provides for support of their parents, 19; willow trees planted at Auburn, N. Y., 22; uses influence in obtaining financial support for Yung Wing, 36; _also_ 12, 34, 36, 43.

Burlingame Treaty of _1868_ disregarded, 208.

Bushnell, Dr. Horace, meeting with Yung Wing, 256.

Campbell, A. A., 20.

Canton, city, Wong Foon practices medicine in, 33; dialect of, 52; revolting conditions attending insurrection (_1855_), 53.

Canton and Siang Tan, overland transport trade between, 87.

“Celestial Empire of Universal Peace,” 120.

“Celestial Sovereign,” Hung Siu Chune called, 108.

Chamber, Heisser and Co., N. Y., 43.

Chang Chi Tung, Viceroy, summons Yung Wing (_1895_), 227; temporarily transferred, 228; listens to plan to recover prestige, 228; compared with Tsang Kwoh Fan, 228, 230; appoints Yung Wing Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Kiang Nan, 231; _also_ 232.

Chang Shi Kwei, secretary to Viceroy Tsang Kwoh Fan, 137; _also_ 143.

Chang Tsze Tung, viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh (_1894_), 225.

Chang Yen Hwan, minister in Washington (_1884-’88_), 223; champions Yung Wing’s banking scheme, 234.

Chêhkiang, province, 83, 86.

Cheong Sha, capital of Hunan, 87, 88.

Cheong Yuh Leang, Imperialist general, 103, 105.

Chi Ksi, _see_ Dowager Empress.

Chin * * *, commandant’s representative at Tan Yang, statement concerning disposition of rebel forces, 105.

Chin Lan Pin, co-operates with Yung Wing in Chinese Educational Commission, 181; personal qualities, 182; duties as commissioner, 183; sent to investigate coolie traffic in Cuba, 194; requests changes in _personnel_ of Educational Commission, 197; appointed joint minister to Washington, 198; minister plenipotentiary to U. S. (_1876_), 200; antagonistic to reform, 201; unsympathetic to New England influence on students, 202; reputation as official, 206; instrumental in recalling students (_1881_), 210; reports at Peking upon expiration of term of office (_1880_), 217.

China, characteristics of language, 52; Yung Wing’s feeling toward during college course, 40; conditions in interior (_1860_), 93.

China and Japan war (_1894-’95_), plans for prosecution by China formulated by Yung Wing, 224; unsuccessful attempts to negotiate loan, 225; influence on China, 236.

_China Mail_, 48, 60.

Chinaman, First, to graduate from American college, 39.

_Chinese and their Rebellions_, 74.

Chinese boats, 79, 82.

Chinese Educational Commission, Chin Lan Pin appointed to co-operate with Yung Wing, 181; _personnel_ and duties, 183; character, selection, and number of students in preparatory school, 183; support of Chinese government, 185; work carried on by Li Hung Chang after death of Tsang Kwoh Fan, 187; first installment of students leave for U. S. (_1872_), 188; headquarters at Hartford, Conn., 189; building erected (_1875_), 190; last installment (_1875_), 197; changes in _personnel_, 197, 200; reactionary attitude of Tsze Tung, 201; students refused admission to West Point and Annapolis, 207; break up of Commission (_1881_), 210; text of protest, 211; impression made upon Chinese government, 216; practical revival, 217; annual cost of maintenance, 247; details of administration, 248; inception, 255; _also_ 23, 76, 269.

Chinese government, resorts to persecution to quell religious fanaticism, 118; corruption of, real cause of Taiping rebellion, 119; _see also_ Graft.

Chinese in St. Helena, 22.

Chinkiang, river port, 83.

Christianity, views held by Taiping rebels, 101; spread of as led by Hung Siu Chune, 117; _see also_ Taiping rebellion.

Christy, Thomas, 156.

Chu Chow, headquarters of Viceroy Tsang Kwoh Fan, 164.

Chung Hou, viceroy of Metropolitan province, held responsible for Tsientsin massacre, 178.

Chung Wong, issues three orders against incendiarism, 104.

Clemens, Samuel, protest against breaking up of Chinese Educational Commission, 211.

_Colton’s Geography_, translated by Yung Wing, 167.

Coolie traffic in Cuba, investigated by Chin Lan Pin, 194; results, 196.

Coolie traffic in Peru, attempt to form treaty with China, 192; Yung Wing’s recital of existing cruelties and refusal to further treaty, 193; investigation by Yung Wing, 194; attitude of Commission, 195; results, 196.

Cuba, Coolie traffic in, 194, 196.

Cutler, Carrol, president of Western Reserve College, 255.

“Deliberative Association of China,” 241.

Dent and Co., Messrs., 77.

Dialect, of Canton, 52; Fuhkien, Anhui, Kiangsee, 53.

Dictionary, First Anglo-Chinese, compiled by Dr. Robert Morrison, 14, 114.

Dictionary of Emperor Khang Hsi, translated, 114.

Doxology, The, repeated by Commandant Liu and Taiping rebels, 99.

Dowager Empress Chi Hsi, Tsang Kwoh Fan created duke by, 147; on side of Li Hung Chang in war with Japan (_1894-’95_), 226; affected by graft, 235; despotic rule over Emperor Kwang Su, 239; _also_ 73.

Dumaresque, Captain, of ship _Florence_, 62.

Dynasties in China, Number of, 113.

East India Company, 22.

East Windsor, Conn., 25.

“Elegant talent,” interpretation of Siu Tsai, 50.

_Eureka_, sailing ship, story of voyage from New York to Hong Kong (_1854-’55_), 43; _also_ 63, 69.

European powers and partitionment of China, 73.

Evangelization of China, False impressions of, caused by Christian tendencies of Taiping rebellion, 120.

Exploitation of Chinese by officials, one cause of Taiping rebellion, 119.

Extra-territorial basis, Foreign settlement on, 72.

Feudatory period, 113.

Fitchburg, Mass., supplies first American machinery to China, 53; _see also_ Machinery.

_Florence_, sailing ship, 62.

Formosa, Island of, plan to mortgage (_1894_), 225, 244; visited by Yung Wing, 242.

Frelinghuysen, T. F., protest against breaking up of Chinese Educational Commission, 211.

_Friend of China_, Shanghai local paper, 76.

Fuhkien, province, Dialect of, 53.

Gatling gun introduced into China, 191.

German government claims monopoly of railroads in Shan Tung, 237.

Gillespie, Capt., of ship _Huntress_, 21.

Good Hope, Cape of, 21, 33, 43.

Goodhue and Co., Messrs., 42.

Graft, System of, between interpreters and Chinese shippers, 63; as practiced by Shing Sun Whei, 235; responsible for corruption in China, 236; _see also_ Bribery.

Grand Canal, China, 79, 100.

Gutzlaff, Mrs., starts school, in Macao, 1, 7; Yung Wing’s first impression of, 3; leaves China for U. S., 8; plans for Yung Wing’s education, 11; _also_ 59, 107.

Gutzlaff, Rev. Charles, missionary to China, 1.

Hadley, Prof. James, 188.

Ham Ha Lan, headquarters of Rev. Mr. Vrooman, 52.

Hammond, Rev. Charles, principal of Monson Academy, 27; graduate of Yale, 27, 30; literary tastes, 30; likened to Dr. Arnold of Rugby, 31; _also_ 34, 36.

Han Yang, port of Hankau, 55; destroyed by Taiping rebels, 91.

Hangchau, capital of Chêhkiang, 80; historic fame, 81; _also_ 83, 85.

Hankau, river port, destroyed by Taiping rebels, 91; present-day conditions, 91; _also_ 90.

Hanlin, Chinese degree of LL.D., 146.

Hanlin College, 200.

Hart, Sir Robert, inspector-general of customs in London (_1894_), 225; refuses loan to China for prosecuting war with Japan (_1894-’95_) 226; _also_ 229.

Hartford, Conn., headquarters for Chinese Educational Commission (_1873-’75_), 189; _see also_ Chinese Educational Commission.

Haskins, John, American mechanical engineer, 155.

Ho Yung, Hupeh province, 88, 89.

Hobson, Dr. Benjamin, employs Yung Wing in hospital, 11.

Hong Kong, Island of, ceded to British government, 15; its harbor, 15; British colony is opposed to Yung Wing, 60; ordinance passed admitting Chinese to practice law in, 61; _also_ 43.

_Hong Kong China Mail_, 20.

Horn, Cape, 47.

Hung Jin, called Kan Wong, _which see_.

Hung Siu Chune, leader of Taiping rebellion, 101, 116; views of Christianity, 101; called Tien Wong, or “Celestial Sovereign,” 108; knowledge of Christianity from missionaries, 114; failure to pass examination and resulting mental hallucination, 116; worshipped as Supreme Ruler, 117; Chinese government resorts to persecution to quell fanaticism, 118.

_Huntress_, sailing ship, 20, 21, 43.

Hwui Chow, mountain range, 81.

_Ida de Rogers_, sailing ship, incidents of voyage from San Francisco to Yokohama (_1865_), 161.

Imperial commissioners for settlement of Tientsin massacre, 178; Yung Wing presses educational scheme, 180.

Imperial forces defeat rebels before Nanking (_1860_), 104; other conflicts, 118.

Imperialists, partly responsible for conditions near Suchau (_1859_), 100.

Incendiarism, Attempts to suppress, 104.

Indian opium trade, Plan for suppression of, 220.

Indian tea, _see_ Tea.

_Integral and Differential Calculus_, translated, 139.

Jamestown, St. Helena, 22.

Japan over Russia, Triumph of, effect on China, 73.

Japan-Russo War (_1904-’05_), influence on China, 236.

Jesuits, their jealousy toward Dr. Robert Morrison, 14.

Kan Wong, Hung Jiu called, native preacher, 108; raised to position of prince and meaning of new name, 108; interviews with Yung Wing regarding Taiping rebellion, 109; offers him seal of high official rank, 110.

Kang Kow, station at entrance of Tsientang River, 82, 85.

Kearneyism, Spirit of, 208.

Kellogg, Dr. E. W., accompanies Yung Wing to Peru, 194; guardian to sons of Yung Wing, 227.

Kew Keang, port, 136.

Kiang Nan Arsenal, location and importance, 153; visited by Viceroy Tsang Kwoh Fan (_1867_), 168; _see also_ Machinery; Tsang Kwoh Fan.

Kiangsee, province, 53, 75, 79, 80, 83.

King Ho, river, 89.

King Yuen, city, 129.

Kingchau, on Yangtze River, 84, 88.

Kiukiang, river port, 83.

Kodama, Viscount Gentaro, governor of Formosa, 242; interview with Yung Wing, 242.

Korea, cause of war between China and Japan (_1894-’95_), 224.

Kow Chang Mere, first machine shop at, 153; _see also_ Machinery.

Ku Chow, walled city, 86.

Kwang Kee Cheu, interpreter for Chinese Educational Commission, 197.

Kwang Su, Emperor, deposed, 238, 241; controlled by Dowager Empress, 238; real character, 239; exponent of reform movement, 241; _also_ 73.

Kwang Tung, province, drastic measures by Yeh Ming Hsin to suppress rebellion in, 53; revolting scenes, 53; spread of Christianity in, 117.

Kwangshun, city, 86.

Kwangsi, province, spread of Christianity in, 117.

Labor question in China, affected by Western innovations, 84, 88.

Lan Chi, town on Tsientang River, 86, 87.

Lane, Rev. John W., protest against breaking up of Chinese Educational Commission, 211.

Language, Chinese, difference between written and spoken, 52.

Lau Gate, city of Suchau, 98.

Leang Ahfah, first convert, 15, 115.

Legge, Dr. James, translator, 108; work on dictionary, 114; Professor of Chinese language and literature at Oxford, England, 252.

Li Hung Chang, _protégé_ and successor of Yung Wing, 142; Nienfi rebellion ended (_1867_), 168; succeeds Tsang Kwoh Fan, 187; characters contrasted, 187; orders investigation of coolie traffic in Peru and Cuba, 194; interview with Yung Wing on subject of recall of students (_1881_), 218; strenuous for peace in war with Japan (_1894-’95_), 226; responsible for defeat, 229; Treaty of Shemonashiki signed, 244.

Li Jen Shu, mathematician, 76.

Li Ling Ying, eunuch of Dowager Empress, 235.

Li Sian Lan, mathematician and astronomer, 139; assists in translating _Integral and Differential Calculus_, 139.

“Linonia,” debating society at Yale, 40; _see also_ “Brothers in Unity.”

Liu * * *, Imperial commissioner for settlement of Tientsin massacre, 179.

Liu Kai Sing, superintendent of preparatory school at Shanghai, 185.

Liu Kwan Yih, viceroy of Kiang provinces, 231, 232.

Lockhart, Dr. William, 8.

London, Ladies’ Association for Promotion of Female Education in India and the East, 1.

London Missionary Society, 8, 14, 108, 114, 139.

Longwood, St. Helena, 22.

Macao, coolie traffic in, 192, 194; _also_ 1, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14, 33, 48, 59, 107.

Macassar straits, 46, 47.

MacClatchy, Rev. Mr., 8.

McClean, Dr. A. S. of Springfield, Mass., friendliness toward Yung Wing, 28, 189.

McClean, Mrs. Rebekah (Brown), 28, 189.

Machinery, American, introduced into China, 149; location of first shop, 153; Yung Wing commissioned to purchase, 154; first order filled at Fitchburg, Mass. (_1865_), 156.

Macy, William Allen, assistant in Morrison school (_1845_), 16, 43; personal qualifications, 17; student at Yale (_1850_), 17; appointed missionary by American Board (_1854_), 17; returns to China in company of Yung Wing, 18, 43; story of voyage, 43.

Malacca, basis of Dr. Robert Morrison’s labors, 14.

“Man of rectitude,” posthumous title of Tsang Kwoh Fan, 148.

Manchu Dynasty, largely responsible for Taiping rebellion, 114; efforts of Hung Siu Chung toward overthrow, 120; _also_ 96.

Mandarin, nine degrees of, 263; _see also_ Rank.

Medhurst, Dr. Walter Henry, work on dictionary, 114.

Mexican dollar accepted in China, 63.

Missionaries, introduction of Christianity by, 114.

Missionary, First, to China, 14, 114.

Monson academy, Mass., contingent fund and conditions of appropriation, 34; Yung Wing’s application for, 35; _also_ 27, 48.

Morrison, Dr. Robert, first missionary to China, 14, 114; voyage from London via New York, 14; compiles first Anglo-Saxon dictionary, 14; translates the Bible, 14; his first Christian convert, 15; influence on subsequent missionary work, 15.

“Morrison hill,” Hong Kong, 15.

Morrison school, opened at Macao (_1839_), 13; removed to Hong Kong (_1842_), 15; W. A. Macy assistant in, 16; _also_ 7, 11, 12, 23, 33.

Mow Chung Hsi, Imperial commissioner for settlement of Tsientsin massacre, 179.

Nagasaki, Japan, 77.

Nam Ping, birth-place of Yung Wing, 1.

Nan Cheong, capital of Kiangsi, 87.

Nan Fung pass, 87.

Nanking, fall in _1864_, 115; captured by Viceroy Tsang Kwoh Fan (_1865_), 164; _also_ 96.

Napoleon, tomb at St. Helena, 22.

National Bank of China, project and defeat, 234.

National Banking scheme, proposed by Yung Wing, 232.

New England, primitive conditions of life in, 29; influence on Chinese students, 202.

New York City, in _1847_, 23; Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, 24.

Ngan Khing, capital of An Whui, 137.

Nienfi rebellion, ended (_1867_), 168.

Nih Kia Shi, tea district, 90, 91.

Northrop, B. G., commissioner of education for Connecticut (_1872_), 189.

Norton, Prof. William Augustus, of Sheffield Scientific School, 42.

Occidental civilization, Superiority of, demonstrated, 216.

Olyphant Brothers, contribute toward support of Yung Wing at Yale, 39; _also_ 20, 43.

Opium war, First (_1840_), 8, 15; Second (_1864_), 7.

Ou Ngoh Liang, member of Chinese Educational Commission, 197, 200.

Oyama, Marshal, 242.

Palmer and New London railroad, 37.

Parker, Dr. Peter, 58, 59.

Parkes, The Misses, 7, 8.

Parkes, Harry, 7.

_Parsons on Contracts_, parts translated by Yung Wing, 167.

Partitionment of China threatened, 73.

Peacock’s feather, conferred only by Imperial sanction, 154; given to Yung Wing, 167; _see also_ Rank.

Pearl River, Canton, 52.

Pedro Island, 1, 6.

Peking, Paying official calls in (_1882_), 219; _also_ 58.

Perit, Pelatiah, of Messrs. Goodhue and Co., 42.

Persecution resorted to by Chinese government to quell religious fanaticism, 118.

Peru, Coolie labor in, 192.

Po Yang Lake, Kiangsi, 86.

Poppy cultivation, early plan for extinction, 220.

Population in interior of China, 93.

Porter, Noah, president of Yale, protest against breaking up of Chinese Educational Commission, 211.

Putnam Machine Company, Fitchburg, Mass., execute first order for machinery for China, 156; _see also_ Machinery.

Railroad between Tsientsin and Chinkiang, unsuccessful plan for, 237.

Rank, Second in, Red Button grade, 272; third in, Blue Button grade, 271; _see also_ Mandarin; Peacock’s feather.

Rebellions, significance in Chinese history, 113; _see also_ Kwang Tung rebellion; Taiping rebellion.

“Red Hair Men,” 9.

Revolutions, _see_ Rebellions.

Rights of Chinese, to be more fully recognized in future, 73.

Ritchie, A. A., 20.

Road, Macadamized, between Sheong Shan and Yuh-Shan, 83, 84.

Roberts, Rev. Icabod J., American missionary, 114; acquaintance with Hung Siu Chune and its results, 115; disappearance at fall of Nanking (_1864_), 115; _also_ 107.

Roman Catholic Church, its part in Tsientsin massacre, 177.

Russell and Co., Messrs., 155.

St. Helena, 21, 22.

San Kow, village, 127.

Sandlotism, Spirit of, 208.

Sandy Hook to Hong Kong in _1854_, 18.

Savannah, Ga., Ladies’ Association of, render financial assistance to Yung Wing, 36.

School, Mechanical, annexed to Kiang Nan Arsenal, 168.

School, Preparatory, established at Shanghai (_1871_), 185; _see also_ Chinese Educational Commission; Gutzlaff, Mrs.; Morrison school.

Seal of official rank offered to Yung Wing by Kan Wong, 110.

Seelye, Leuranus Clarke, president of Smith College, protest against breaking up of Chinese Educational Commission, 211.

“Seven Dragons,” on Tsientang River, 85.

Shan Hing, city, 94.

Shanghai, city, 51, 67.

_Shanghai Mail_, 76.

Sheffield Scientific School, 42.

Shemonashiki, Treaty of, 244.

Sheong Shan, city, 83.

Shing Sun Whei, head of Chinese Telegraphic Company, 235; responsible for defeat of National Banking project, 235.

Shing Taoti, _see_ Shing Sun Whei.

Shortrede, Andrew, 20, 48, 59.

Si-Hoo, or West Lake, 80.

Siang Tan, city, overland transport trade with Canton, 97.

Silk, Yellow, 88, 90, 94.

Siu Tsai, degree, 50.

Soldiery and the people in time of war, 103.

Springfield, Mass., home of Dr. A. S. McClean, 28; Yung Wing’s headquarters (_1872_), 29; center of location for students under Chinese Educational Commission, 189.

Students, in preparatory school, Shanghai, 185; first installment under Chinese Educational Commission leave for U. S. (_1872_), 188; distributed through New England, 189; last installment (_1875_), 197; _see also_ Chinese Educational Commission; School.

Suchau, captured by Taiping rebels, 97; under martial law, 98.

Sung Dynasty, 81.

Sung-Kiang route to Suchau, 96.

Szechuen Road, Shanghai, 67.

Szechwan, province, 84.

Ta Tung, non-treaty port, 126.

Tael, value of Chinese, 128.

Taiping government, conditions under which Yung Wing would join, 109.

Taiping Green Tea Expedition (_1860-’61_), 191; _see also_ Tea; Yung Wing.

Taiping rebellion (_1850-’65_), religion its vital force, 113; led by Hung Siu Chune, 117; Chinese government resorts to persecution to quell, 118; assumes political character, 118; real causes of, 119; false impressions concerning evangelization of China, 120; first victory, 120; causes of loss of prestige, 121; collapse, 122; indirect results, 122; cost and loss of life, 147; capture of Nanking (_1850_), 164; _also_ 53, 55, 56; _see also_ Taiping rebels.

Taiping rebels, capture of Woo Chang (_1856_), 91; and of Suchau, 97; condition of surrounding country, 100; their considerate conduct, 101; Doxology, 99, 102; views of Christianity, 101; and of soldiery, 103; defeated before Nanking (_1860_), 104; statement by Chin regarding their disposition, 105; quantities of green tea held by, 124; _also_ 86, 90; _see also_ Taiping Green Tea Expedition; Rebellions.

Taotai, official of fourth rank, 167.

Tea, Chinese and Indian compared, 92; drank as thank-offering, 103; quantities held by Taiping rebels, 124; expeditions to purchase, headed by Yung Wing, 125; _also_ 85, 90, 191.

Tien Wong, Hung Siu Chune called, 108.

Tientsin massacre (_1870_), cause, 177; Chung Hou held responsible for, 178; indemnity, 178; Imperial commissioners, 178; _also_ 268.

Ting Yi Tcheang, _see_ Ting Yih Chang.

Ting Yih Chang, taotai of Shanghai, 167; sympathy with educational plans of Yung Wing, 170; governor of Kiang Su and Imperial commissioner for settlement of Tsientsin massacre, 179.

Tonquin, tributary state, 178.

Treaty Powers, 58.

Trident, sailing ship, 14.

Tsai Sik Yung, secretary to viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh (_1894_), 225.

Tsang Kee Foo, standing, 76; introduces Yung Wing to Li Jen Shu, 76.

Tsang Kwoh Fan, viceroy, 137; defeated by Taiping rebels (_1862_), 138; his plans for Yung Wing, 139; drills army and brings to extinction Taiping rebellion, 141, 147; supreme power of China, 142; personal characteristics, 142, 145, 146; interview with Yung Wing, 143; created duke by Dowager Empress, 147; plans for introducing Western machinery into China, 149, 153; commissions Yung Wing to make first purchase, 154; capture of Nanking, 164; makes Chu Chow headquarters, 164; Nienfi rebellion ended (_1867_), 168; visits Kiang Nan Arsenal, 168; Imperial commissioner for settlement of Tsientsin massacre, 178, 180; furthers Yung Wing’s educational scheme, 180, 183; returns to headquarters at Nanking (_1870_), 182; death (_1871_), 186, 273; summing up of character and comparison with Li Hung Chang, 187; Chang Chi Tung compared with, 228, 230; _also_ 76, 77, 104.

Tsang Tai Sun, interpreter for Chinese Educational Commission, 183, 197; _also_ 96.

Tsang Mew, friend of Yung Wing, 125.

Tsientang River, its periodical bore, 81.

Tung Ting Lake, 89.

Twichell, Rev. Joseph H., accompanies Yung Wing to Peru, 194; protest against breaking up of Chinese Educational Commission, 211; _also_ 227.

Ung Tung Hwo, tutor to Emperor Kwang Su, 233; champions Yung Wing’s banking scheme, 234; collusion with Shing Sun Whei and system of graft, 235.

Union Chapel, Shanghai, 66.

U. S. government, timely intervention to prevent partitionment, 73.

Urh Woo, Chinese boat, 82.

Victoria Colony, 15.

Vrooman, Rev. ----, headquarters at Ham Ha Lau, 52.

Wen Seang, prime minister of China, 171; death of mother and period of mourning, 175; his death (_1868_), 170.

West Lake, or Si-Hoo, Hangchau, 80.

West Point Military Academy, Chinese students refused admission, 207.

Wha Yuh Ting, 143.

Whang Wen Shiu, president of Tsung Li Yamun, (Foreign Affairs), 220.

Whipple, Capt., of ship _Eureka_, 43.

Whitworth’s machine shop, London, 156.

Williams, S. Wells, work on dictionary, 114.

Willow trees at Auburn, N. Y., planted by S. R. Brown, 22.

Wong Foon, decision to pursue further course of study referred to patrons in Hong Kong, 31; graduates from Monson Academy and enters University of Edinburgh, 32; return to China (_1857_), 33; death (_1879_), 33; _also_ 13, 18, 20, 28, 31.

Wong Kai Keh, assistant commissioner at St. Louis Exposition, 232.

Wong Shing, scholar in Morrison school, 13, 18, 20, 28, 31.

Woo-Sik, Chinese city, 79.

Woo-Sik-Kwei, Chinese boat, 79, 80.

Woo Tsze Tung, comes to U. S. in retinue of Chin Lan Pin (_1876_), 200; member of Chinese Educational Commission (_1876_), 201; attitude toward work of the Commission, 204; instrumental in recalling students (_1881_), 210, 219.

Wuhu, treaty port, 83, 126.

Wuhu River, 126.

Yang Liu Tung, tea district, 91.

Yangtze-Kiang River, 84, 89, 91.

Yeh Ming Hsin, Viceroy, drastic measures to suppress rebellion in Kwang Tung province, 53; appointed viceroy (_1854_), 55; capture and banishment, 56.

Yeh Shu Tung, teacher for Chinese Educational Commission, 183; coolie question in Cuba, 197, 206; appointed secretary to Chinese Legation, 198.

Yellow River, Inundation of, 75.

Ying Wong, Chin’s opinion of, 104.

Young, John R., protest against breaking up of Chinese Educational Commission, 211.

Yuh-Shan, city, 83, 86.

Yung Wing, birth (_1828_), 1; early school life, 2; death of father (_1840_), 8; helps toward family income, 8; works in rice fields, 9; printing office, 11; hospital, 11; enters Morrison school (_1841_), 13; departure for U. S. (_1847_), 18, 21; benefactors, 19, 36; incidents of voyage, 22; arrival in New York, 23; Chinese Education scheme, 23; enters Monson Academy, 27; studies during first year, 28; placed under care of Mrs. Phœbe H. Brown, 29; literary taste influenced by Dr. Charles Hammond, 31; decision to pursue further course of study referred to patrons in Hong Kong, 31; refuses Edinburgh offer, 32; graduates from Monson Academy, 32; enters Yale, 33, 37; problem of support, 34; applies for assistance from contingent fund, 34; grounds for refusal, 35; inadequate preparation and hard work, 37; prizes, 38; stewardship, 38; assistant librarian of “Brothers in Unity,” 39; first Chinaman to graduate from American college, 18, 39, 49; popularity, 40; determination to carry Western education into China, 41; abandons scientific course and returns to China, 42; story of voyage (_1854-’55_), 43; meeting with his mother, 48; college degree, 50; mother’s death (_1858_), 51; residence in Canton, regaining the language, 52; revolting consequences of Kwang Tung rebellion, 53; sympathies stirred, 56; private secretary to Dr. Peter Parker, 59; interpreter in Hong Kong Supreme Court, 59; studies law, 59; apprentice to attorney, 60; opposition of British colony, 60; resignation, 62; passage from Shanghai to Hong Kong in ship _Florence_, 62; position in Imperial Customs, 63; system of graft leading to resignation, 63; mercantile life, 67; night encounter with men from ship _Eureka_, 67; and other personal insults, 70; reputation as translator, 74; draws up petition for relief of sufferers in Yellow River inundation, 75; introduced to Li Jen Shu, 76; ground for declining position as comprador, 77; packing tea, 78; goes to Hangchau, 80; ascends Tsientang River, 82, 85; takes trip to hunt after yellow silk, 88; return to Nih Kia Shi, 90; learns process of preparing tea for foreign market, 91; first journey in interior of China, 93; silk business, 94; with missionaries to Nanking (_1859_), 96; experiences _en route_, 98; arrival at Tan Yang and conversation with Commandant, 101; courteous treatment, 105; gates of Ku Yung closed against them, 106; Nanking reached, 106; introduction to I. C. Roberts, 107; renews acquaintance with Hung Jin, 108; points suggested by journey, 109; conditions of joining Taiping government, 109; interview with Kan Wong resulting in offer of title of fourth official rank, 110; refusal, 111; passport granted and return journey to Shanghai made, 112; attention turned to money-making, 123; interview with tea-merchants at Shanghai, 124; expedition to Taiping to buy tea, 125; routes chosen and particulars of journey, 126; escorts treasure on succeeding expeditions, 128; midnight adventure with marauding horde, 130; ill health and relinquishment of tea business, 135; invited to call on Viceroy Tsang Kwoh Fan (_1863_), 137; enters service of state government (_1863_), 140; arrival at Ngan Khing and interview with Viceroy, 143, 150; temporary abode at military headquarters, 148; suggestions for establishing machine shop, 149; empowered to purchase machinery, 152; commission received (_1863_), 154; fifth official rank conferred, 154; route from Shanghai to New York, 155; class re-union at Yale, 156; order for machinery executed at Fitchburg, Mass., 156; offers himself to U. S. government as volunteer, 157; return to China, 160; report on purchase of machinery, 165; created mandarin (_1865_), 166; government interpreter and translator, 166; _Colton’s Geography_ and parts of _Parsons on Contracts_ translated, 167; school of engineering suggested to Viceroy, 166; secures co-operation of Ting Yih Chang in educational scheme, 170; proposals drawn up, 171; hindrances to their presentation to the government, 175; Tsientsin massacre furthers plans, 177; memorial for adoption of proposals signed, 180; Chin Lan Pin’s co-operation, 181; memorial sanctioned, 182; invited to Nanking to confer with Viceroy, 183; Educational Commission appointed, 183; preparatory school established (_1871_), 185; English government schools visited, 186; precedes first installment of students to U. S. (_1872_), 188; headquarters at Hartford, Conn., 189; gatling gun introduced into China (_1873_), 191; interview with Peruvian commissioner on coolie traffic, 192; relates horrors and refuses to further treaty, 193; commissioned to investigate conditions in Peru, 194; report of mission, 195; attitude of Peruvian commissioner, 195; results, 196; appointed joint Chinese minister to Washington, 198, 207; disagreement with Chin Lan Pin, 202, 205; letter to Viceroy regarding Woo Tsze Tung, 205; violation of Burlingame Treaty, 208; last official act as Commissioner (_1877_), 209; reports at Peking upon expiration of term of office (_1881_), 217; interview with Li Hung Chang on subject of recall of students (_1881_), 218; paying official calls, 219; Indian opium trade and poppy culture, 220; return to U. S. (_1883_), 220; illness and death of wife (_1886_), 221; joy in sons, 223; formulates plans for prosecuting war of _1894-’95_, 224; partial acceptance of plan and commission to negotiate loan, 224; failure caused by personal animosity, 226; recalled to China (_1895_), 226; provision for sons during absence, 227; presents plans to Chang Chi Tung, 228; appointed secretary of Foreign Affairs for Kiang Nan, 231; resigns, 232; begins translation of National Banking Act, 232; defeat of plans for National Bank of China, 234; unsuccessful attempt to secure railroad concession, 237; headquarters at Peking _rendez-vous_ of reformers of _1898_, 241; flight to Shanghai and organization of “Deliberative Association of China,” 241; in Hong Kong (_1900-’02_), 241; returns to U. S. (_1902_), 242; visit to Formosa and threatened arrest, 242; furnished with bodyguard, 245; meeting with Dr. Horace Bushnell, 256; _for detailed résumé of life see_ Appendix.

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