. The awakening of China . notunlike that of those British orators who made a reputa-tion out of the impeachment of Lord Clive or WarrenHastings, save that with him a trenchant pen tookthe place of an eloquent tongue. I knew Chunghauboth before and after his disgrace. In 1859, whenan American embassy for the first time entered thegates of Peking, it was Chunghau who was appointedto escort the minister to the capital and back againto the seacoast—a pretty long journey in those dayswhen there was neither steamboat nor railway. Dur-ing that time, acting as interpreter, I had occasionto see him ev
. The awakening of China . notunlike that of those British orators who made a reputa-tion out of the impeachment of Lord Clive or WarrenHastings, save that with him a trenchant pen tookthe place of an eloquent tongue. I knew Chunghauboth before and after his disgrace. In 1859, whenan American embassy for the first time entered thegates of Peking, it was Chunghau who was appointedto escort the minister to the capital and back againto the seacoast—a pretty long journey in those dayswhen there was neither steamboat nor railway. Dur-ing that time, acting as interpreter, I had occasionto see him every day, and I felt strongly attracted byhis generous and gentlemanly bearing. The poorfellow came out of prison stripped of all his honours,and with his prospects blighted forever. In a fewmonths he died of sheer chagrin. The war with Japan in 1894-1895 found Changestablished in the viceroyalty of Hukwang, two prov-inces in Central China, with a prosperous populationof over fifty millions, on a great highway of internal. VICEROY CHANG ^»!/l VICEROY CHANG 225 traffic rivalling the Mississippi, and with Hankow,the hub of the E^jipire, for its commercial he saw the Chinese forces scattered like chaffby the battalions of those despised islanders he wasnot slow to grasp the explanation. Kang Yuwei, aCanton man, also grasped it, and lurged on the Emperorthe necessity for reform with such vigour as to prompthim to issue a meteoric shower of reformatory edicts,filling one party with hope and the other with had held office at Canton; and his keen in-tellect had taken in the changed relations of Westand East. He perceived that a new sort of sunshineshed its beams on the Western world. He did notfully apprehend the spiritual elements of our civilisa-tion; but he saw that it was clothed with a powerunknown to the sages of his country, the forces ofnature being brought into subjection through scienceand popular education. He felt that China mustconform to the ne
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