FOOTNOTES
[1] As an example of unbalanced vituperation, uttered in good faith and with the best intentions, vide The Chinese Crisis from Within by “Wen Ching,” republished from the Singapore Free Press in 1901 (Grant Richards).
[2] About £120.
[3] The same euphemism was employed to describe the Court’s flight in August 1900.
[4] Grandfather of Na T’ung, the present head of the Waiwupu.
[5] “Yi” and “Cheng” are honorific names, meaning respectively “harmonious” and “sedate.”
[6] The expression has reference to the fact that the Empresses Regent are supposed to be concealed from the sight of Ministers at audience by a curtain suspended in front of the Throne.
[7] The age of the Emperor was less than six, but the solemn farce of his alleged acts and opinions is solemnly accepted by the Chinese as part of the eternal order of things.
[8] To allow women privily to accompany the Imperial cortège is a crime punishable by law with the penalty of the lingering death.
[9] The Prison of the Imperial Clan Court.