Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . THE RULING POWERS OF CHINA. 77 tze-Kiang and running south in an irregular breadth of from 300to 360 miles. The provinces embraced in this section of theEmpire contain from 92,000,000 to 94,000,000 people. And thesemillions ever keep alive the belief that some day they will be ableto rise again and do away with the Manchu dynasty. These people are intelligent f
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . THE RULING POWERS OF CHINA. 77 tze-Kiang and running south in an irregular breadth of from 300to 360 miles. The provinces embraced in this section of theEmpire contain from 92,000,000 to 94,000,000 people. And thesemillions ever keep alive the belief that some day they will be ableto rise again and do away with the Manchu dynasty. These people are intelligent fatalists; they never quarrel withfacts. And their patience is as deep as the sea. They will waitfor the opportunity, and when it comes they will strike. WEDDED TO A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. From the formation of the first dynasty to the present time theChinese have been absolutely knit to a central government by ahighly elaborated system, civil and military. It is the chief ambi-tion of the rich and poor alike in every part of the Empire to beidentified in some way with the government. The poor make allkinds of sacrifices in order that their sons may be educated to passthe civil service examination and thousands come from the distant
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