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2. Smith, R.W.
Shaolin Temple Boxing
.

3. In 1998 I spoke with a WWF official who swore that he had seen a demonstration in Sichuan Province in which a bottle was broken, a newspaper set on fire, solely by the concentrated ‘thought-power’ of three wandering monks. He could see no way in which the objects burned or destroyed could have been tampered with during the demonstration.

4. Buck, D. D. (ed.).
Recent Chinese Studies of the Boxer Movement
.

5. Wu Yung.
The Flight of an Empress
.

6. National Geographic Authors.
Journey into China
.

7. Goldstein, J
. The Jews of China
.

8. Eitel, E. J.
Feng Shui
.

9. YuanYong, in Buck, D. D. (ed.).
Recent Chinese Studies of the Boxer Movement
.

10. Bland, J. O. P. and Backhouse, E.
China Under the Empress Dowager
, p. 225.

11. Bland, J. O. P. and Backhouse, E.
China Under the Empress Dowager
, p. 226.

12. Tan, C. C.
The Boxer Catastrophe
.

13. Pearl, C.
Morrison of Peking
.

Chapter 19

1. Savage-Landor, H., quoted in Pearl, C.
Morrison of Peking
.

2. Bland, J. O. P. and Backhouse, E.
China Under the Empress Dowager
, p. 225.

3. Allen, R.
The Siege of the Peking Legations, being the diary of R. Allen
.

4. Bland, J. O. P. and Backhouse, E.
China Under the Empress Dowager
, p. 225.

5. Tan, C. C.
The Boxer Catastrophe
. p. 78.

6. Putnam Weale, B. L.
Indiscreet Letters from Peking
.

7. Lui, Adam Yuen-chung.
The Hanlin Academy
.

8. Pearl, C.
Morrison of Peking
, p. 118.

9. Bland, J. O. P. and Backhouse, E.
China Under the Empress Dowager
.

10. Tan, C. C.
The Boxer Catastrophe
, p. 98.

11. Pearl, C.
Morrison of Peking
, p. 119.

12. Tan, C. C.
The Boxer Catastrophe
, p. 104.

13. Wu Yung.
The Flight of an Empress
, pp. 49—50.

14. Allen, R.
The Siege of the Peking Legations, being the diary of R. Allen
, p. 260.

15. Allen, R.
The Siege of the Peking Legations, being the diary of R. Allen
, p. 276.

16. Vare, D.
The Last Empress
, p. 248.

17. Pearl, C.
Morrison of Peking
, p. 118.

Chapter 20

1. Wu Yung.
The Flight of an Empress
, p. 210.

2. Bland, J. O. P.
Li Hung Chang
.

3. Tan, C. C.
The Boxer Catastrophe
, p. 162.

4. Tan, C. C.
The Boxer Catastrophe
, p. 151, n. 142.

5. Tan, C. C.
The Boxer Catastrophe
, p. 156, n. 155.

6. Pearl, C.
Morrison of Peking
, p. 215.

7. Tan, C. C.
The Boxer Catastrophe
, p. 220, n. 12.

8. Wu Yung.
The Flight of an Empress
, p. 227.

9. More than two thousand carts were needed to transport the court.

10. Wu Yung.
The Flight of an Empress
, p. 231.

11. Wu Yung.
The Flight of an Empress
, p. 242.

12. Vare, D.
The Last Empress
.

Chapter 21

1. Headland, I.
Court Life in China
, p. 98.

2. Carl, K. A.
With the Empress Dowager of China
.

3. Carl, K. A.
With the Empress Dowager of China
. pp. 65—67.

4. Pelissier, R.
The Awakening of China,1793—1949
(edited and trans. M. Kieffer). Secker & Warburg, 1967, p. 245; quoting
The Gospel of Chung Shan
, pp. 51—52.

5. Bland, J. O. P. and Backhouse, E.
China Under the Empress Dowager
, p. 460.

6. Bland, J. O. P. and Backhouse, E.
China Under the Empress Dowager
, pp. 468—469.

7. Bland, J. O. P. and Backhouse, E.
China Under the Empress Dowager
.

Epilogue

1. Collis, M.
The Great Within
.

2. Vare, D.
The Last Empress
, 1938, quoting Moore, Bennet, Illustrated London News.

3. Lady Susan Townley.
My Chinese Notebook
.

4. Semblance of Dynasty carried on in part of the Forbidden City till 1924 when the ‘child-Emperor’, Pu-yi, now eighteen years old, was forced to leave the Palace.

Postscript

1. MacAleavy, H.
A Dream of Tartary
, p. 186, quoting commission of enquiry report.

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