Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ..together with the complete history of China down to the present time .. . CHINESE CHILDREN. TRAVELLING MERCHANT AND WIFE OF PROVINCE OF THIBET, CHINA PRINCE KUNG AND THE REGENCY. 141 agreeable to foreigners, thus showing a con-ciliatory disposition. On the 29th of June, 1873, Tungche re-ceived in audience the ministers of the principalPowers at Pekin, and thus gave completenessto the many rights and concessions obtainedfrom his father and grandfather by
Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ..together with the complete history of China down to the present time .. . CHINESE CHILDREN. TRAVELLING MERCHANT AND WIFE OF PROVINCE OF THIBET, CHINA PRINCE KUNG AND THE REGENCY. 141 agreeable to foreigners, thus showing a con-ciliatory disposition. On the 29th of June, 1873, Tungche re-ceived in audience the ministers of the principalPowers at Pekin, and thus gave completenessto the many rights and concessions obtainedfrom his father and grandfather by the treatiesof Tientsin and Nankin. The privilege thussecured caused lively gratification in theminds of all foreign residents, to whom itsignified the great surrender of the inherentright to superiority claimed by the ChineseEmperors, and we have recently seen that ithas been accepted as a precedent. The Illustrious Dead. The sudden death of Tseng Kwofan inthe summer of 1872 removed unquestionablythe foremost public man in China. Afterthe fall of Nankin he had occupied thehighest posts in the Empire, both at thatcity and in the metropolis. He was notmerely powerful from his own position, butfrom his having placed his friends
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