. The Flowery republic / by Frederick McCormick ... with special illustrations by the author and from photographs and the Chinese press ; maps, etc . into the complications, was evidently relyingupon success in war with Japan. War came in ten years,and its outbreak has always been attributed to the arro-gance at Seoul of Yuan Shih-kai. As Japan came offan easy victor, Yuan proved to have been the wrong manat the door. But these ten years of crass error and itsconsequences were the making of him. Yuan Shih-kai was thirty-six when he got back toTientsin, and he was thirty-seven when the treaty o
. The Flowery republic / by Frederick McCormick ... with special illustrations by the author and from photographs and the Chinese press ; maps, etc . into the complications, was evidently relyingupon success in war with Japan. War came in ten years,and its outbreak has always been attributed to the arro-gance at Seoul of Yuan Shih-kai. As Japan came offan easy victor, Yuan proved to have been the wrong manat the door. But these ten years of crass error and itsconsequences were the making of him. Yuan Shih-kai was thirty-six when he got back toTientsin, and he was thirty-seven when the treaty ofShimonoseki was signed ending the war with three years he is not mentioned in the oificial listsof the Empire, but in July 1897 the fact that he becomesJudicial Commissioner for Chihli indicates that he is anolder and much wiser man. At the same time it showsthe interesting fact that he has not lost prestige with hispatron Li Hung-chang and is making friends and alliances. During Sept. 1898 Yuan Shih-kai was given the rank ofVice-President of a Board (one of the departments of theCentral Government) and the control of an army Yuan Shih-kai. Pfc^king, 19TI-1912. T-.,/,,..-/. 343, HAMMERED INTO A STATESMAN 349 That he had made good use of his experiences in Koreawas shown by the fact that he turned his attention withgreat energy to building up an army on foreign mihtarylines. In June 1899 he received an actual appointment asVice-President in the Board of Works. In Dec. 1899 hebecame Acting-Governor of Shantung, and in March 1900Governor. In September 1908, the time of which I am speaking,when his services and abilities are recognized by theEmpress [Grand] Dowager, foreign observers and studentsof Chinese history and character speak of him as theonly Chinese or Manchu visible who can be called astatesman and placed in that rank among the men ofnations. In twenty-four years he has been hammered from arash young soldier into a statesman. He started withthe metal o
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