Study On Letters From China

"Beijing Letters "(Letters from China,1909) Sarah Pike Conger author. Sarah Pike Conger to follow her husband-U.S. envoy in Beijing Edwin Hurd Conger came China in 1898, Lived in Beijing for seven years. "beijing Letters " is Sarah·Conger with friends and family correspondence between the collection, which contains a total of 80 letters,11 were caused by friends, to the sister,20,17 and nephew, and niece,8, daughter 22 Letters, an aunt, Shun Wang Fujin 1.As an audience with the Empress Dowager Cixi Empress Dowager Cixi, and had close contacts and the first wife of a diplomat, Her direct observation and evaluation of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Empress Dowager Cixi to reveal the other side of the political landscape has provided us with valuable historical rare. We all know that she advocated new education, sent Chinese students to study abroad, encouraging foreign affairs office. A major component of Reformation Movement is to learn the advanced experience of the West, is closely linked with the Office of Westernization. Empress Dowager Cixi in this period if you do not promote the learning of foreign affairs, the U.S. envoy in Nanking two rivers on the Governor's conference will not encounter many English-speaking officials. Through one case, we can see another Empress. Interests in China as the spokesman for a winner, and she had no need for an armed conflict, when the country was in a passive position of the Empress Dowager his best words of flattery. From the correspondence between the lines, we can appreciate the author of a sympathetic means Empress.Beijing to suppress the Boxer Rebellion Boxer, as witnesses and participants, Sarah·Conger natural standing position of the U.S. government condemned the Boxer's "barbaric act" and appreciates the Qing government to sign the unequal and the Boxer Rebellion, "Boxer Protocol". But in her diary, we encouraged the Qing government at first Boxer against imperialism, was in turn a kill Boxer learn more about the details.Description of the Chinese people, especially the description of her servants, can be described as meticulous. She passed one example shows that the Chinese people industrious and capable, a sericulture textiles, porcelain and all kinds of handicrafts manufacturing experts, but also reflects on them honest, calm, precise work, in perfect order and so on.Letters in this letter involves a lot of experience of playing in China, which ment- ioned some of the old and interesting customs and the late Qing Dynasty people (especially women) dress and food culture. Scenes of the book aside ignorance of history flashed picture, we can always find some reassuring things. The foreign minister wife stories of many letters to us a true reflection of the liberation of Chinese women at that time, the recovery of self-consciousness momentum.This book is like a panorama of the late Qing Dynasty in China, despite efforts to maintain an objective attitude of, but as a force of several thousand years of history of the great nation of China submit to the State Minister of aggression wife of Eight powers for the invasion of China and their attempt to carve up the facts, she was often evasive in between the lines, trying to hide something, which reveals the author himself in culture, education, psychological sense of superiority and self-esteem.