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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: and that this appointment was made--or at least
announced--twenty-four hours before the death of the Emperor.
On the thirteenth of November the foreign diplomatic
representatives received the following edict from the great
Dowager through the regular channel of the Foreign Office of
which Prince Ching was the president:
"It is the excellent will of Tze-hsi-kuan-yu-k'ang-
i-chao-yu-chuang-ch'eng-shou-kung-ch'in-hsien-chung-hsi, the
great Empress Dowager that Tsai Feng, Prince of Chun, be
appointed Prince Regent (She Chang-wang)."
The above edict was soon followed by another which stated that
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