Two Years in The Forbidden CityMoffat, Yard, 1911 - 383 من الصفحات The author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yü Keng, a member of the Manchu White Banner Corps, and one of the most advanced and progressive Chinese officials of his generation. -- Foreword. |
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afraid arrived Audience Hall beautiful bedroom boats Boxer Boxer Rising Buddha ceremony chair China Chinese clothes Conger course Court ladies courtyard custom dressed embroidered Emperor Kwang Empress Dowager esty eunuchs brought everything fairies father finished flowers Forbidden City gate give gowns guests head eunuch jade kind knelt knew kowtowed Kuan Yin Kwang Hsu laughed leave Lien Ying look Majesty asked Majesty ordered Majesty told Majesty wanted Majesty's Manchu Miss Carl moon mother never nice noticed officials painted pearls Peking peony Plançon portrait present Prince Ching Prince Tuan received replied rest Sea Palace servant girls Shanghai Shou side silk sister smiled stay Summer Palace surprised taels talking Taotai tell thing thought throne Tientsin tired told Her Majesty took trouble usual veranda waiting walk wear wore yellow Young Empress Yü Keng Yung Lu
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الصفحة 177 - America is always very friendly towards China, and I »«• appreciate their nice behavior at the Palace during the twentysixth year of Kwang Hsu (1900), but I cannot say that I love the missionaries, too. Li Lien Ying told me that these missionaries here give the Chinese a certain medicine, and that after that they wish to become Christians, and then they would pretend to tell the Chinese to think it over very 'carefully, for they would never force anyone to believe their religion against their...
الصفحة 356 - Do you know, I have often thought that I am the most clever woman that ever lived and others cannot compare with me. Although I have heard much about Queen Victoria and read a part of her life which someone has translated into Chinese, still I don't think her life was half so interesting and eventful as mine. My life is not finished yet and no one knows what is going to happen in the future. I may surprise the foreigners some day with something extraordinary and do something quite contrary to anything...
الصفحة 360 - Lu came, looking very much worried, and he was more so after I had told him what the Boxers were going to do. He immediately suggested that I should issue an Edict saying that these Boxers were a secret society and that no one should believe their teaching, and to instruct the Generals of the nine gates to drive all the Boxers out of the city at once. When Prince Tuan heard this he was very angry and told Yung Lu that if such an Edict was issued, the Boxers would come to the Court and kill everybody....
الصفحة 19 - ... rings and on her third and little fingers of her right hand she wore gold finger nail protectors about three inches long, and on the left hand two finger nail protectors made of jade and about the same length. Her shoes were trimmed with small tassels made of pearls and embroidered with tiny pieces of colored jade. Her Majesty stood up when she saw us and shook hands with us. She had a most fascinating smile While we were talking to her we saw a gentleman standing at a little distance and after...
الصفحة 297 - ... and the food was conveyed to the mouth by the hands alone." One of the most interesting customs which she describes was the freeing of the birds. Each year on her birthday Her Majesty did a very peculiar thing. She would buy 10,000 birds with her own money, from her private purse and set them free. The hour selected was four o'clock in the afternoon. Her Majesty took the whole court with her to the top of the hill, where there was a temple. First she burned sandal wood and offered up prayers...
الصفحة 357 - Lan told me that they firmly behoved that the Boxers were sent by Heaven to enable China to get rid of all the undesirable and hated foreigners. Of course they meant mostly missionaries, and you know how I hate them and how very religious I always am, so I thought I would not say anything then but would wait and see what would happen. I felt sure they were going too far as one day Prince Tuan brought the Boxer leader to the Summer Palace and summoned all the eunuchs into the courtyard of the Audience...
الصفحة 13 - I made up my mind then and there that I would do all I could and use any influence I might have in the future towards the advancement of China and for her welfare. While I was still dreaming of these pleasant prospects, a faint red line appeared on the horizon heralding the coming of a most perfect day, and so it proved. As the light grew brighter and I could distinguish...
الصفحة 352 - About a week before the time fixed for completion Her Majesty paid a visit to the studio to finally inspect the picture. She seemed very much pleased with it, but still objected to her face being painted dark on one side and light on the other. As I have said before, I had explained that this was the shading, but Her Majesty insisted on my telling Miss Carl to make both sides of her face alike. This led to a pretty hot discussion between Miss Carl and myself but she finally saw that it was no use...
الصفحة 361 - They forgot how very strong these foreign countries are, and that if the foreigners in China were all killed, thousands would come to avenge their death. Yung Lu assured me that one foreign soldier could kill one hundred Boxers without the slightest trouble, and begged me to give him instructions to order General Nieh, who was afterwards killed by the Boxers, to bring his troops to protect the Legations. Of course I gave him this instruction at once, and also told him that he must see Prince Tuan...
الصفحة 362 - He was so frightened that he made us all leave Peking." As she finished saying this, she started to cry, and I told her that I felt very sorry for her. She said: "You need not feel sorry for me for what I have gone through; but you must feel sorry that my fair name is ruined. That is the only mistake I have made in my whole life and it was done in a moment of weakness. Before I was just like a piece of pure jade; everyone admired me for what I have done for my country, but the jade has a flaw in...