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ОглавлениеAFFAIRS OF STATE.
| PRELUDE. | |
| PART I.—GETTING TO PEKING. | |
| House-boat on the Peiho.—Tientsin.—Chefoo.—A Peking Cart.—Camels.—British Embassy.—Walking on the Walls.—Beautiful Perspectives | 457 |
| PART II.—THE SIGHTS OF PEKING. | |
| Tibetan Buddhism.—Yellow Temple.—Confucian Temple.—Hall of the Classics.—Disgraceful Behaviour.—Observatory.—Roman Catholic Cathedral.—Street Sights.—British Embassy.—Bribes.—Shams.—Saviour of Society.—Sir Robert Hart | 473 |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S MAGNIFICENCE. | |
| The Emperor at the Temple of Heaven.—Mongol Princes wrestling.—Imperial Porcelain Manufactory.—Imperial Silk Manufactory.—Maids of Honour.—Spring Sacrifices.—Court of Feasting.—Hunting Preserves.—Strikes.—Rowdies.—Young Men to be prayed for | 493 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| THE EMPRESS, THE EMPEROR, AND THE AUDIENCE. | |
| A Concubine no Empress.—Sudden Deaths.—Suspicions.—Prince Ch`ün.—Emperor's Education.—His Sadness.—His Features.—Foreign Ministers' Audience.—Another Audience.—Crowding of the Rabble.—Peking's Effect on Foreign Representatives | 515 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| SOLIDARITY, CO-OPERATION, AND IMPERIAL FEDERATION. | |
| Everybody guaranteed by Somebody Else.—Buying back Office.—Family Responsibilities.—Guilds.—All Employés Partners.—Antiquity of Chinese Reforms.—To each Province so many Posts.—Laotze's Protest against Unnecessary Laws.—Experiment in Socialism.—College of Censors.—Tribunal of History.—Ideal in Theory | 532 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| BEGINNINGS OF REFORM. | |
| Reform Club.—Chinese Ladies' Public Dinner.—High School for Girls.—Chinese Lady Doctors insisting on Religious Liberty.—Reformers' Dinner.—The Emperor at the Head of the Reform Party.—Revising Examination Papers.—Unaware of Coming Danger.—Russian Minister's Reported Advice | 549 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| THE COUP D'ÉTAT. | |
| Kang Yü-wei.—China Mail's Interview.—Beheading of Reformers.—Relatives sentenced to Death.—Kang's Indictment of Empress.—Empress's Reprisals.—Emperor's Attempt at Escape.—Cantonese Gratitude to Great Britain.—List of Emperor's Attempted Reforms.—Men now in Power.—Lord Salisbury's Policy in China | 570 |
DRY STATEMENTS.
(TO BE CARRIED WITH THE READER, IF POSSIBLE.)
| The Chinese Empire is rather larger than Europe. | |
| Being on the eastern side of a great continent, it has the same extremes of climate as are to be found in the United States. | |
| Fruits, flowers, and crops vary in like manner. | |
| Peking is on about the same parallel as Madrid, Chungking as Cairo, Shanghai as Madeira. | |
| The population of China is over | 385 millions. |
| That of the British Isles in 1891 not quite | 38 millions. |
| That of France in 1896 | 38½ millions. |
| One alone of China's eighteen provinces, Kiangsu, has over | 39½ millions. |
| The Russian nation, already extending over one-sixth of the globe, while China only extends over a little more than one-twelfth, musters little over 129 millions, and thus has about one-third of the Chinese population, with about twice its territory to stretch itself in. | |
| There is no Poor Law in China. There are no Sundays. | |
| It is considered very unwomanly not to wear trousers, and very indelicate for a man not to have skirts to his coat; consequently our European dress is reckoned by Chinese as indecorous. | |
| Chinese begin dinner with dessert or Russian sakouska, and finish with hot soup instead of hot coffee. | |
| Their cooks are second only to the French; their serving-men surpass the Germans. | |
| Chinese love children; are ready to work day and night for their masters; and if occasion demand, to be beaten in their place, or even, if needs be, to die for them. | |
| In fine, although in all details unlike ourselves, a great race, with some magnificent qualities. |
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