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 .. . ious legations as secretary, there to bepromoted to a chargeship or ministership, as his merits or influenceentitle him. Such was the career of Lo-feng Luh, who has latelyblossomed forth as Sir Chih-chen Lofengluh, he going through theprescribed course at the tsung-li-yamen before attracting the atten-tion of the great Li-Hung Chang, who on his tour throughEuro
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 .. . ious legations as secretary, there to bepromoted to a chargeship or ministership, as his merits or influenceentitle him. Such was the career of Lo-feng Luh, who has latelyblossomed forth as Sir Chih-chen Lofengluh, he going through theprescribed course at the tsung-li-yamen before attracting the atten-tion of the great Li-Hung Chang, who on his tour throughEurope; attached him to his person as secretary. It has been surmised, and not without reason, that the estab-lishment of the tsung-li-yamen was due to a desire on the part ofPrince Kung and his associates to impede in formal fashion, ratherthan to expedite foreign business. Foreign powers in the earlyyears of the yamen were inclined to be a little dictatorial, and it 384 THE MANDARIN AND HIS POWER was a common saying among the Mandarins: Well, what haveFrance and England ordered China to do next ? ALWAYS GO SLOWLY, The motto of the yamen has been Go slowly. The mem-bers have been made to feel that they stood between Europe and 1* ^. U-HUNG CHANG, VICEROY OF CHINA. China. At first their ignorance was so excessive that it renderedthem cautious in executing even the slightest formalities, fearfulthat the foreigners would overreach them. Perhaps not least of thesingularities of Chinese government is the way the tsung-li-yamenrecruits its membership, as explained by Cheng Lin, one of theMandarins. As an expedient for averting external opposition bysubstituting internal friction it deserves celebrity. You know, once said this member of the yamen, that the THE MANDARIN AND HIS POWER. 385 plans of the department sometimes go down before the force of out-side antagonism. A clever censor or powerful Mandarin gets theear of the Emperor, who forthwith quashes our wisest such a case
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