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. Does it not therefore seem significant, that less than a
century after the Gospel of Jesus Christ had been preached to her
people, and the Bible circulated freely throughout her dominions,
she opened her court to the world, began to build railroads, open
mines, erect educational institutions, adopt the telegraph and
the telephone, and step into line with the industrial methods of
the most progressive nations of the Western world?
XXI
The Death of Kuang Hsu and the Empress Dowager
Who knows whether the Dowager Empress will ever repose in the
magnificent tomb she has built for herself at such a cost, or
whether a new dynasty may not rifle its riches to embellish its
own? Tze-Hsi is growing old! According to nature's immutable law
her faculties must soon fail her; her iron will must bend and her
far-seeing eye grow dim, and after her who will resist the tide
of foreign aggression and stem the torrent of inward revolt?
--Lady Susan Townley in "My Chinese Note Book."
XXI
THE DEATH OF KUANG HSU AND THE EMPRESS DOWAGER
During mid-November of 1908 the Forbidden City of Peking was a
blind stage before which an expectant world sat as an audience.
It had not long to wait, for on the fifteenth and sixteenth it
learned that Kuang Hsu and the Empress Dowager, less than
twenty-four hours apart, had taken "the fairy ride and ascended
upon the dragon to be guests on high." The world looked on in
awe
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