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war with England in 1840. The collapse of China forced from her the Nanking Treaty of 1842, by which the ports of Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, and Shanghai, were opened to foreign trade. The cost of this war and the payment of a substantial indemnity fanned the discontent caused by official corruption; and secret societies and pirates seized this faYourable opportunity for doing all in their power to harass the Government and disturb the country. Canonised as ^ ^ J^ M ^•

Tao Tsung. See Yeh-lii Hung-obi. Tao Wu Ti. See Toba Kuei ^

Tao YUan ^ |9 • ^ Buddhist pricipt of j^ Ts'ang-chou in 1890 Chihli, who in 965 A.D. set o£P for India. After (Eighteen years he returned to the capital, in company with an envoy from Ehoten, bearing relics and Sanscrit sUtras written on palm-leaves. He obtained a private audience and was questioned as to his journey, receiving a purple robe and other rewards.

Tao Ytin ^ ^. 4th cent. A.D. The clever niece of the famous 1891 Hsieh An, and daughter of §^ ^ Hsieh I of the Chin dynasty, who when her brother likened a snow-storm to salt sprinkled in the air, corrected his feeble similitude by saying it was rather to be compared with wiUow-catkins whirled by the wind. She married Wang Ning-chih, but left him because he was such a fool.

T'ao CJh'ien P^ jf (T. jc ^.*H. i DP :5t ^ and ^ |jf 1892

^ ^). A.D. 865-427. Great-grandson of T'ao K*an. A youth of wide reading and great ambition, he was compelled by poverty to become an official underling; but after a few days he resigned and went home, where he made himself ill by overwork in the fields. He was subsequently appointed magistrate at ^ ^ P^dng- ts§ in Kiangsi, whence he is sometimes called T'ao P*^ng-tsd. He held the post however only for 83 days, objecting to receive a superior officer with the usual ceremonial on the ground that '^he could not