[79] Professor James.
[80] Mentioned above under full name of Chi Shou-ch’eng. Chi Pin was his “hao” or intimate personal name.
[81] Ching Shan’s house was just inside the Tung An Gate of the Imperial City, about a quarter of a mile to the north of the present Legation area boundary.
[82] This favourite companion of Tzŭ Hsi was really Jung Lu’s secondary consort, who was only raised to the rank of la première légitime after his first wife’s death in September, 1900. She survived him and continued to exercise great influence with the Old Buddha.
[83] A short biographical note on Chang Chih-tung will be found in the [Appendix].
[84] Vide under June 20th.
[85] A quotation from Mencius.
[86] Quotation from Mencius.
[87] History of events under the Chou dynasty, by Confucius; one of the Five Classics.
[88] How well and successfully she did it, has been told in Miss Catherine A. Carl’s book, With the Empress Dowager of China. The painting of her portrait for the St. Louis exhibition was in itself an example of Tzŭ Hsi’s “cardinal virtues of government,” which she practised with conspicuous success on the simple-minded wife of the American Minister, Mrs. Conger. (Vide Cordier, Relations de la Chine, Vol. III., p. 423.)