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the entertainment the envoys expressed themselves as unusually
impressed with the personality of the Regent. --Daily Press.
XI
PRINCE CHUN--THE REGENT
The selection of Prince Chun as Regent for the Chinese empire
during the minority of his son, Pu I, the new Emperor, would seem
to be the wisest choice that could be made at the present time.
In the first place, he is the younger brother of Kuang Hsu, the
late Emperor, and was in sympathy with all the reforms the latter
undertook to introduce in 1898. If Kuang Hsu had chosen his
successor, having no son of his own, there is no reason why he
should not have selected Pu I to occupy the throne, with Prince
Chun as Regent, for there is no other prince in whom he could
have reposed greater confidence of having all his reform measures
carried to a successful issue; and a brother with whom he had
always lived in sympathy would be more likely to continue his
policy than any one else.
But, in the second place, as we may suppose, Prince Chun was
selected by the Empress Dowager, whatever the edicts issued, and
will thus have the confidence of the party of which she has been
the leader. It is quite wrong to suppose that this is the
conservative party, or even a conservative party. China has both
reform and conservative parties, but, in addition to these, she
has many wise men and great officials who are neither radical
reformers nor ultra-conservatives
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