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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: many days. I will give an epitome of the decrees that the reader
at a glance may see what the Emperor undertook to do. Summarized
they are as follows:
1. The establishment of a university at Peking.
2. The sending of imperial clansmen to foreign countries to study
the forms and conditions of European and American government.
3. The encouragement of the arts, sciences and modern
agriculture.
4. The Emperor expressed himself as willing to hear the
objections of the conservatives to progress and reform.
5. Abolished the literary essay as a prominent part of the
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