[Gutenberg 523] • Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People

Excerpt from Isaac Taylor Headland's Three Books That "Link East and West" Court Life in China, the Capital, Its Officials and People; The Chinese Boy and Girl; Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes

It has also been thought that the Emperor has been misunderstood, being overestimated by some, and underestimated by others, and this because of his peculiar type of mind and charac ter. That he was unusual, no one will deny; that he was the originator of many Of China's greatest reform measures, is equally true; but that he lacked the power to execute what he con ceived, and the ability to select great statesmen to assist him, seems to have been his chief short coming.

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