Note 61 — XV TZŬ HSI RESUMES THE REGENCY (1898)

Chang Yin-huan, who had been created a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George in connection with Queen Victoria’s Jubilee celebration, was subsequently put to death, after banishment to Turkestan. An order given by Prince Tuan at the commencement of the Boxer crisis was the immediate cause of his execution.

Another reformer named Hsü Chih-ching was condemned to imprisonment for life in the Board of Punishments under this same Decree; he was released by the Allies in August 1900, when he proceeded at once to T’ai-Yüan fu, and handed himself over to justice, disdaining to accept his release at the hands of foreigners. This incident is typical of the Chinese officials’ attitude of mind and of their reverence for the Decrees of the head of the State.