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China under the Empress Dowager

China under the Empress Dowager

by J. O. P. Bland

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Author
Backhouse, E. (Edmund), Sir, 1873-1944
Title
China under the Empress Dowager : Being the history of the life and times of Tzŭ Hsi
Original Publication
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1910.
Credits
Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
Subject
China -- History -- 19th century
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 72032
Release Date
November 4, 2023
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.CHINA UNDER THE EMPRESS DOWAGER
  2. 2.NOTE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5.INDEX TO NUMBERED MAP OF PEKING
  6. 6.I THE PARENTAGE AND YOUTH OF YEHONALA
  7. 7.II THE FLIGHT TO JEHOL
  8. 8.III THE TSAI YÜAN CONSPIRACY
  9. 9.IV THE FIRST REGENCY
  10. 10.V TSENG KUO-FAN AND THE TAIPING REBELLION (1864)
  11. 11.VI TZŬ HSI AND THE EUNUCHS
  12. 12.VII A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE
  13. 13.VIII MAJORITY AND DEATH OF THE EMPEROR T’UNG-CHIH
  14. 14.IX THE PROTEST AND SUICIDE OF WU K’O-TU
  15. 15.X TZŬ HSI BECOMES SOLE REGENT
  16. 16.XI TZŬ HSI “EN RETRAITE”
  17. 17.XII THE REFORM MOVEMENT OF 1898
  18. 18.XIII THE HUNDRED DAYS OF REFORM
  19. 19.XIV THE COUP D’ÉTAT OF 1898
  20. 20.XV TZŬ HSI RESUMES THE REGENCY (1898)
  21. 21.XVI THE GENESIS OF THE BOXER MOVEMENT
  22. 22.XVII THE DIARY OF HIS EXCELLENCY CHING SHAN
  23. 23.XVIII IN MEMORY OF TWO BRAVE MEN
  24. 24.XIX SIDELIGHTS ON TZŬ HSI’S STATECRAFT
  25. 25.XX THE FLIGHT FROM PEKING AND THE COURT IN EXILE
  26. 26.XXI HOW THE BOXER LEADERS DIED
  27. 27.XXII THE OLD BUDDHA PENITENT
  28. 28.XXIII THE RETURN OF THE COURT TO PEKING
  29. 29.XXIV HER MAJESTY’S NEW POLICY
  30. 30.XXV THE VALEDICTORY MEMORIAL OF JUNG LU
  31. 31.XXVI HER MAJESTY’S LAST DAYS.
  32. 32.XXVII TZŬ HSI’S DEATH AND BURIAL
  33. 33.XXVIII CONCLUSION
  34. 34.APPENDIX BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON CHANG CHIH-TUNG, TSO TSUNG-T’ANG, SUN CHIA-NAI, AND TUAN FANG — CHANG CHIH-TUNG — TSO TSUNG-T’ANG — SUN CHIA-NAI — TUAN FANG
  35. 35.FOOTNOTES
  36. 36.INDEX

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