Brinkley, F. (Frank), 1841-1912 · Boston : J. B. Millet · leaf 140
any insight into Chinese affairs — recog-nised in the Empress Dowager a woman of emi-nent capacity, and from well nigh the very out-set the newspaper organs of foreign opinion inChina poured upon her head a stream of abusesuch as no other living sovereign, above all awoman, has ever been called on… … THE SEQUEL OF CONQUEST the shadow of its death. The most importantstrategical points in the empire were occupied byforeign forces; the richest regions of the realmwere over-run by Taiping insurgents; theNienfei — rebels scarcely less formidable — de-vastated Shangtung, and the Mohammedan…
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