. An American engineer in China . outward dis-tinguishing mark, in the queue, which was a dis-tinctly Manchu custom, the Chinese having pre-viously cut their hair like Western people. Ontheir establishment the Manchu rulers ordered allpeople to wear the queue as a token of the Chinese natives still do, although the Ti-betans and Mongols continue to cut their hair asof old. Manchus and Chinese can be readily dis-tinguished by their names. Thus one of Manchudescent has but a double name, like Yung Lu, whilea Chinese has three characters as, Li Hung-chang. The government of China
. An American engineer in China . outward dis-tinguishing mark, in the queue, which was a dis-tinctly Manchu custom, the Chinese having pre-viously cut their hair like Western people. Ontheir establishment the Manchu rulers ordered allpeople to wear the queue as a token of the Chinese natives still do, although the Ti-betans and Mongols continue to cut their hair asof old. Manchus and Chinese can be readily dis-tinguished by their names. Thus one of Manchudescent has but a double name, like Yung Lu, whilea Chinese has three characters as, Li Hung-chang. The government of China is an absolute des-potism, with powers vested in an Emperor, whoseposition is well indicated by his most used titlethe Son of Heaven. He is assisted by twocouncils under whom are the seven boards of Civil 28 An American Engineer in China Service, Revenue, Rites, War, Punishment, Works,and Navy, who severally attend to the adminis-tration of affairs in their respective there is the Tsung-li Yam6n, or foreign of-. Four Members of the Tsung-li Yamen and Mr. Conger inthe Courtyard of the Yamen From left to right they are ; Hsu Yung-i, Wang Wen-shao, Chao Shu-cliiao, Mr. Conger, Yu Keng fice, a bureau composed of twelve ministers, withand through whom all relations with other nationsand foreigners generally are conducted. The communication between the Imperial au-thority and the people is through the local gov- Chapter I: China 29 ernments of the provinces. These provinces intheir organization closely resemble an AmericanState, var3ing in size from Chekiang, the smallest,with an area of 35,000 square miles, to Sz-chuen,the largest, embracing 170,000 square are respectively comparable with theStates of Indiana (36,350 square miles) and Cali-fornia (156,000 square miles). Each province isruled by a Governor appointed by the throne,who exercises his authority through a chain ofofficialism. The province is divided into circuits,each circuit being controlled
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