PROGRESS in science can only be achieved by making use of the materials collected, and by building upon foundations already laid. A knowledge of the literature becomes therefore an indispensable necessity. The present work is an effort to meet a desideratum in this respect, which as yet is unsupplied.

We have made use of the works mentioned under part I and have to thank N. B. Dennys, Ph. D., of Hongkong, for the liberal manner, in which he has placed the commencement of a similar work of his own at our disposal.

We are not aware, that any important work has been omitted, but should such be the case, criticism ought to be lenient, considering that the work was compiled in the centre of China (at Kiukiang and Peking) and with access to none but private libraries.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

ATURE:

fucianism,

1. General 281

Taoism 207

2. Opium 291

2. Buddhism ... 213

d. Biographies of Eu-

3. Mohammeda -

ropeans

293
nism, Jews 221 XV. ABORIGINES, MIAOTSZE,

g. Rebellions, Pirates,

HAKKAS, &c.

297

Secret Societies.. 222

h. Emigrants and Chi- C. Extraprovincial China.

nese Colonies 227

XVI. LANGUAGES AND LITER-

XIV. INTERCOURSE WITH FO-

REIGNERS:

a. Mandshu

Lang-

a. Political:

uage and Litera-

1. Foreign Em-

ture...

300

bassies to

b. Mongolian Lang-

the Court of

Peking

uage and Litera-

228

ture....

305

2. Political Re-

c. Tibetan Language
lations,

and Literature... 308

Treaties 235

d. Corean Language 314

3. Wars ..... 246 XVII. GEGGRAPHY, HISTORY,

4. Hongkong 250

ETHNOGRAPHY OF Ex-

5. Macao

252

TRAPROVINCIAL CHINA 314

b. Religious:

a. Manchuria

315

1. Romish Mis-

b. Mongolia...... 317

sions

253

c. Central Asia (Tur-

2. Protestant

kestan, Dsunga-

Missions 263

ria, etc.)

322

3. Medical Mis-

d. Tibet

333

sions

278

e. Corea and Liukiu 340

C. Commercial:

INDEX OF AUTHORS..

345

...

......

I.

List of Works which formed the foundation

of the present compilation,

1 MEUSELIUS, J. G., Bibliotheca historica. Lip

siae, 1784-1802, 11 vols., 8vo.; Vol. II, pars. II

on China. 2 TERNAUX-COMPANS, H., Bibliothèque asiatique

et afriquaine. Paris, 1841, 8vo. 3 WILLIAMS, S. W., List of foreign works upon

China. Chinese Repository, XVIII, pp. 402

657. 4 KONER, W., Repertorium über die von 1800-1850

in akad. Abhandlungen, etc. auf dem Gebiete der Geschichte erschienenen Aufsätze. Berlin, 1852, 8vo. ,

Continuation of No. 1, Meuselius. 5 ZENKER, J. T., Bibliotheca orientalis. Manuel de

bibliographie orientale. Leipzig, 1861, 2 vols.,

8vo. 6 ANDREAE, V. and GEIGER, J., Bibliotheca si

nologica. Uebersichtliche Zusammenstellung als
Wegweiser durch das Gebiet der sinologischen
Literatur. Frankfurt a/m, 1864, 8vo.

See J. Mohl, Journ. As., III, 370, 1864.
A selection of European publications up to

1863. 7 Catalogue of books relating to China and the

East, 8vo. This is the catalogue of A. Wylie's library, now in the R. A. S., Shanghai.