The Fight For The Republic in China (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544704845)

From that day onwards for over a century no Emperor ventured out from behind the frowning Walls of the Forbidden City, save for brief annual ceremonies, such as the Worship of Heaven on the occasion of the Winter Solstice, and during the two "flights"-first in 1860 when Peking was occupied by an Anglo-French expedition and the Court incontinently sought sanctuary in the mountain Palaces of Jehol; and, again, in 1900, when with the pricking of the Boxer bubble and the arrival of the International relief armies, the Imperial Household was forced along the stony road to far-off Hsianfu. The effect of this immurement was soon visible; the Manchu rule, which was emphatically a rule of the sword, was rapidly so weakened that the emperors became no more than rois fain ants at the mercy of their minister. 1] The history of the Nineteenth Century is thus logically enough the history of successive collapses. Not only did overseas foreigners openly thunder at the gateways of the empire and force an ingress, but native rebellions were constant and common.

Author: B. L. Putnam Weale
ISBN-10: 1544704844
ISBN-13: 9781544704845
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2017
Pages: 426
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d