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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: Liaing Tung-yen, president of the Board of Foreign Affairs. After
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
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