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Great events in recent history. During my forty years' residence in the
capital I had become well acquainted with Chang's brilliant career; but
it is only within the last three or four years that I have had an
opportunity to study him in personal intercourse, having been called to
preside over his university and to aid him in other educational
enterprises. [Page 220] Whatever may be thought of the rank and file of
China's mandarins, her viceroys are nearly always men of exceptional
ability. They are never novices, but as a rule old in years and veterans
in experience. Promoted for executive talent or for signal services,
their office is too high to be in the market; nor is it probable that
money can do much to recommend a candidate. A governor of Kwangsi was
recently dismissed for incompetence, or for ill-success against a body
of rebels. Being a rich man, he made a free use of that argument which
commonly proves effective at Peking. But, so far from being advanced to
the viceroyalty, he was not even reinstated in his original rank. The
most he was able to obtain by a lavish expenditure was the inspectorship
of a college at Wuchang, to put his foot on one of the lower rounds of
the official ladder. Chang was never rich enough to buy official
honours, even in the lower grades; and it is one of his chief glories
that, after a score of years in the exercise of viceregal power, he
continues to be relatively poor. His name in full is Chang Chi-tung,
meaning "Longbow of the Cavern," an allusion to a tradition that one of
his ancestors was born in a cave and famed for archery. This was far
back in the age of the troglodytes. Now, for many gen

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