Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them
CHAPTER II.
THE EMPRESS, THE EMPEROR, AND THE AUDIENCE.
A Concubine no Empress.--Sudden Deaths.--Suspicions.--Prince Chʽün.--Emperor's Education.--His Sadness.--His Features.--Foreign Ministers' Audience.--Another Audience.--Crowding of the Rabble.--Peking's Effect on Foreign Representatives 515