Visitors, Chinese etiquette, 186-189. Invitation to dinner, 188. Left-hand, place of honour, 187. Tea, serving and drinking, 187.
Vitale, Baron, publication of Chinese nursery rhymes, 206.
Watermelon, Chinese term for, Greek origin, 134.
Wên Tien-hsiang, influence of Chinese literature and training on, 113-116.
Western incidents in Chinese literature, 135-139.
Wine, introduction of grape-wine into China, 131.
Wine-drinking-- Anecdotes, 127-128. Grecian resemblances, 126-127. Guest-tea, 187.
Wives-- "Henpecked husbands," 204. Status, etc., 196, 198, 199. [_See also_ Women.]
Women-- Ancestry of ancient Chinese traced through mother, 27. _Biographies of Eminent Women_, 50. Disregard of, 189. Education, 197-198. False hair, 180. Foot-binding, _see that title_. Girls, _see that title_. Greek similarities, 121-122. "Henpecked husbands," 204. Official life, 198. Painting the face, custom, 122. Poems by, 60, 197. Privileges not shared by men, 201. Seclusion, 177, 196. Shopkeepers, business ability, 198. Veils, abolition of, 197. Widows, 201-202. Wives, _see that title_.
Written Chinese language, _see_ Language.
Yüan Yüan, commentary, Confucian Canon, 43.
Zebra, picture of, in ancient Chinese book, 59.
End of Project Gutenberg's China and the Chinese, by Herbert Allen Giles