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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: Dowager.
One can imagine that in proportion as the Empress Dowager was
pleased with the statesmanship manifested by Yuan Shih-kai in
unintentionally reseating her upon the throne, in a like
proportion the Emperor would be dissatisfied with it as being the
cause of his dethronement. This was not, however, against Yuan
alone but against the father-in-law of the present Regent and
even Prince Ching as well. During the whole ten years, from 1898
until his death, while he was a prisoner "his heart boiled with
wrath" against those who had been the cause of his downfall.
It was not until the Boxer troubles of 1900 were over, and Yuan,
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